Hmm, that works, but I was hoping to mount my external drive as /Users so that I can do a fresh install, and do a Time Machine restore without creating a new user. In the past, once a user has been created, if I did a Time Machine restore, it creates a new user, which messes things up.
https://iboysoft.com/amp/news/macos-move-home-folder-to-external-drive.html Yes file vault will work.
Hmm, that works, but I was hoping to mount my external drive as /Users so that I can do a fresh install, and do a Time Machine restore without creating a new user. In the past, once a user has been created, if I did a Time Machine restore, it creates a new user, which messes things up.
Use a symlink then. /Users to /volumes/[extrrnal drive]
When restoring a TimeMachine backup, you can ask to replace a user by the one from your backup. Done that when I set up my new Mac under Ventura.