I'm installing a SSD and to save space I want to move my user folder to another drive, is there a way to do that?
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check this: http://askubuntu.com/q/77412/110096 – Coder anonymous Jan 11 '13 at 06:09
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No instructions there – zShell Jan 11 '13 at 06:13
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Useful link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/21321/move-home-folder-to-second-drive – saji89 Jan 11 '13 at 07:11
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can you specify whether your 'other drive' is an internal, mounted harddrive? – don.joey Jan 11 '13 at 08:10
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It's an internal mounted SSD – zShell Jan 11 '13 at 08:12
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@zShell were you able to move your home drive to other disk? did you go through my solution? If you are still facing any issue please let me know. – VRU Feb 21 '13 at 05:46
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From Terminal type this:
sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp
which will allow you to temporarily mount the new partition, assuming /sdb1 as new partition for HOME.
sudo rsync -avx /home/ /mnt/tmp
This will copy HOME to new location.
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home
This will mount the new partition as HOME and make sure all data is present.
sudo umount /home
This will unmount the new partion.
rm -rf /home/*
This deletes the old HOME.
To make HOME permanent you need to know the UUID of the new partition for the fstab entry. you can get that by giving command:
sudo blkid
Note down the UUID and use the same to change fstab .
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Now add the following at the end.
UUID=<noted number from above> /home ext4 defaults 0 2
NOTE: You need to select the exact file system that was formatted (for example ext4 as chosen here).
Now you can restart your computer to see the new HOME.
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Copy all the files from your /home to another drive
Change the /etc/fstab entry to point /home to that drive
If you don't how, reply. I will provide a shell script to do that.
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May I know how to do it with the script? The above answer didn't work for me. Hoping to try yours. – Teshan N. Jan 18 '16 at 08:56