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I am looking to move my Home directory to another hard drive (I have an SSD and a larger spinning drive). I have looked at instructions online, I'm not finding any that work though. Maybe they are a bit outdated.

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Use gparted or another partitioning tool to create the partition you want to use for /home. Record the UUID of the new partition.

Copy all you files from /home to the new partition (this includes the folder /user). Don't forget the hidden folders.

Edit /etc/fstab and add the following lines:

# /home partition
UUID=<uuid recorded earlier> /home   ext4    defaults        0       2

Next, reboot your system

After confirming that your new /home partition is working correctly, you can delete the contents of the old home folder since only the folder /home is necessary for the mount point.

Note: if you formated with something other that ext4, change it to match the file system used.

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