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Figure 2.4: The home directory for the user dscully still exists, even though we removed the user
With the 
/home
 directory for 
dscully
 still existing, we're able to move the contents of 
this directory anywhere we would like to. If we had a directory called 
/store/file_
archive
, for example, we could easily move the files there:
sudo mv /home/dscully /store/file_archive
Of course, it's up to you to create the directory where your long-term storage will 
ultimately be, but you get the idea.
If you weren't already aware, you can create a new directory with the 
mkdir
 
command. You can create a directory within any other directory that your logged-in 
user has access to. The following command will create the 
file_archive
 directory I 
mentioned in the preceding example:
sudo mkdir -p /store/file_archive
If you do actually want to remove a user's home directory at the same time that you 
remove an account, just add the 
-r
 option. This will eliminate the user and 
their data in one shot:
sudo userdel -r dscully
To remove the 
/home
 directory for the user after the account was already removed (if 
you didn't use the 
-r
 parameter the first time), use the 
rm -r
 command to get rid of 
it, as you would any other directory:
sudo rm -r /home/dscully
The 
-p
 flag simply creates the parent directory if it didn't already 
exist.

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