Keep /home on HDD and move other files into an SSD

Question

I installed Ubuntu on my HDD, there are two partitions on HDD: ~2TB with ext4 (sda1) format and 8GB for swap (sda2).

There are a lot of files in the /home directory but it is not separated. I did add a new SSD (sdb) into my PC.

How can I keep /home in HDD and move everything else into the new SSD?

distro: Ubuntu desktop 18.04.4 LTS (Gnome shell)
HDD Size: 2.0 TB (2,000,398,934,016 bytes)
/home directory on HDD size: 80GB

I'm not using any virtualization and hibernation.

@k7aay, thanks. I checked this, As I said I want to keep my /home on HDD. — Cham Lake, Feb 18 '20 at 19:52
Thank you but the swap is not the matter, I want to move everything except /home from 2TB HDD to a new 240GB SSD to speedup my PC. — Cham Lake, Feb 18 '20 at 20:02
What's the total of file space on the 2TB HDD now, less the file space used by /home ? Please answer with [edit] and please don't answer with Add Comment. — K7AAY, Feb 18 '20 at 21:06
Does this answer your question? Move home folder to second drive — dessert, Feb 23 '20 at 10:06
@dessert The linked topic does not fully cover this problem as OP needs to move the system in this case, i.e. keep it bootable after moved to the other drive. — Melebius, Feb 28 '20 at 12:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 28 '20 at 11:23

There are several ways to achieve what you want but it’s always best to backup your data first.

Since you only have 80GB in your home directory I would be inclined to do the following:

Ask or search here if you don’t know how to complete these steps

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