To Move Home To Another Drive
Description:
Follow these steps to move your /home directory to another drive.
To Resolve:
- Open terminal => type:
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# Change to root
su
# Change ownership of second drive to your user. If you don't know the path to the second drive type "blkid" to find your drive.
chown gerry -R /dev/sdb1
# Give yourself permissions to that drive
chmod 666 -Rv /dev/sdb1
# Create a temp mount point
mkdir /mnt/tmp
# Mount your drive to that mount point
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp
# Copy your current /home dir to that point
rsync -avx /home/ /mnt/tmp
# Unmount the drive
umount /mnt/tmp
# Rename the old home
mv /home /home.old
# Copy your drive UUID to a text editor like Pluma
blkid
#Open the auto mount file. Feel free to use vim or whatever.
vi /etc/fstab
#Paste in:
UUID=bdab1550-7619-495c-abf3-19ea3f95af60 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# Save and exit the file, then reboot
reboot
- Your drive should be auto mounted!
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