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  • Thanks for the info - yes it is Linux. I ask this because I wanted to mount my second HDD as /home, and it contains folders other than my W7 user folder. Commented May 26, 2014 at 17:21
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    @JamesN: If the other HD is formatted for use by windows, the problem is not going to be what it contains, but the fact that it's unsuitable for many uses that applications might expect to work. For instance, lacking symlink and hardlink support, case-sensitive filenames, fifos, unix sockets, ... Commented May 26, 2014 at 19:35
  • @R It's formatted in ntfs, and the symlinks set up seem to be functioning - have I missed something? Commented May 27, 2014 at 11:36
  • A quick question, since no program should rely on it's location, how do programs decide to place the dotfiles to the home directory? Commented Nov 28, 2014 at 19:26
  • @OganM By using the ~ shorthand or the $HOME environment variable. Most users will have these available. But in the case of no home directory, most programs default to /etc as a backup when they can't find a home directory. E.g. if ~/.vimrc doesn't exist, then vim will look for /etc/vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc Commented Mar 3, 2015 at 21:45