I want to make my /home folder on a separate partition on my harddrive. How can I do that, if there is a way?
1 Answer
Check out the howto: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving
The basic steps are as follows:
Setup your new partition
Backup and edit your
fstab
to mount the new partition as/media/home
(just for the time being) and reboot.- Use
rsync
to migrate all data from/home
into/media/home
. - Edit
fstab
again so the new partition mounts as/home
instead of/media/home
but not reboot just yet. - Move
/home
to/old_home
and reboot - Delete
/old_home
.
/home
folder is in your hard drive, anyway.