Some newbie questions

[Joe Zeff]

On 09/05/2014 01:08 PM, Bat Phil wrote:
> Best thing then is to set up a 2-drive system, put some non-critical
> data files in the home directories and try it out then. Although
> presumably, if I do manage to balls up the IDs and block the data, then
> it's just a case of logging in as root and sorting out permissions??

Generally speaking, yes.  Even more important, be sure to back up /home 
before you start this, just to be on the safe side.