/home/username/ Directory Not Found Ubuntu 21.10

Question

For some reason, the /home/username/ directory doesn't exist. I can't find it with the terminal, I can't find it in the files, it simply doesn't exist to my testing.

Is this normal, or is something wrong with my system?

Answer 1

if you come from this question, you have to take note about "/home/username/" path. In some situations, points to "replace the word username from path using your session's username". Please follow the original question's thread.

Answer 2

It is very normal that a directory /home/username may not exist. I also do not have one.

Typically, directories under /home are the home directories of users created on the system. For a user with login name e.g. Pokegamer129, a directory /home/Pokegamer129 would exist on the system. Only if there is a user with the login name username we do expect the existence of a directory /home/username, otherwise not.

So do not worry if that directory does not exist if no such user username is registered on the system.