This caught me by surprise too! I ended up with the common approach of creating per user zfs file systems under /export/home, modified /etc/passwd to reflect this, and moved on. I'm busy moving the Belenix infrastructure from openindiana to omnios, so I didn't invest to much time in this since /export/home where user home folders are usually kept in the illumos world. Sriram. <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 30, 2012 4:49 AM, <<a href="mailto:steve@linuxsuite.org">steve@linuxsuite.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Howdy! I installed OmniOS and added a couple of users with useradd and home dirs in /home. When I rebooted they were gone. df -a shows that something called auto_home was mounted on home. So I unmounted /home and of course the home dirs are now visible.. I found a file /etc/auto_home that had an entry in it and commented it out. Now boots ok... so Why did /home got mounted? Is this expected? What is the correct way to deal with this? thanx - steve _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a> <a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>