Rather than removing everything under /home ("sudo rm -rf /home/*"), it is much safer to rename the home directory ("sudo mv /home /home~") and then create a separate empty home directory for the mount point ("sudo mkdir /home"). This way, all your data is still under /home~/username. After you've tested everything including automounting the new home directory on the second drive, then you can delete /home~ if you wish.
Okay so following linear left towards right logic, you are saying: type "sudo mv /home /home~" which will move /home to the NEW drive "/home~" then typing "sudo mkdir /home~" will make the new drive file the new directory.
@6:49 - just in case anyone is wondering rsync -x option means 'don't cross filesystem boundaries', so if you happen to have a soft link (or hard link?) file that links to a file on another mount point do not copy those files (on that difference mount point)
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I just want to echo what DT pointed out earlier: if it is the /home directory you're moving (or any other directory where config files are kept), it's a good idea to do the entire process in tty, because you can potentially break your system (nothing unfixable, but still, why worry about that). If it is only music or videos or things like that, then it's fine to do it in the GUI. If you don't already know how to edit a text file in tty, learn that first. You can use nano, vim, or even ed, the standard text editor (depending on whether you're a noob, pro, or hacker, respectively). Also, if this is the first time you're doing this, have your /home directory backed up to an external drive, just in case you delete it before actually copying it. That would really be a shame :D In fact, it's a good idea to have your /home directory backed up on an external (unplugged) drive anyway, just in case of a hardware failure or something like that. But that's just common sense.
For some years now it has been my practice to have the OS install in its own partition, even with only one drive. Allocate one partition of, say, 50GB for the OS, and a second one of the same size, initially left unused. All the rest is for /home. On today’s multi-terabyte drives, this is no big deal. What’s the second OS-sized partition for, you may ask? That’s if you want to try out another distro without wiping out your original OS install. You can point its /home directory at the same one used by the first install, and have all your user files immediately available under the new OS without having to copy them back and forth.
Followed the steps, now nothing in my Linux is working, can't open anything, can't click on anything, brother wtf, everything was fine until the deleting process, followed the command, and boom
Derek, thanks a lot for such an informative video! Logically, the next one should be about how to configure the fstab file, when different drives (SSD, HHD) are available... e.g. a SSD for the system, and a couple of HDDs for data storage... Once again, minor features and nuancies you describe so well matter!
followed instructions went into TTY, rmed my /home/, had to add a -R as it was not empty :) went to switch back to plasma session made me log in i'd log in and it'd blink and go right back to the login prompt fortunately I remembered /etc/fstab - and it had a comment in it that reminded me the command to get the UUID. Muddled my way through executing the command *from within nano* so I could mark, copy, paste with Nano's horrible default keybindings (I have no /home, so I have no .nanorc) So just from my hairbrained memory, I was able to get my new /home/ filled in on the fstab file. Rebooted and viola! The login loop would've made me super nervous if it hadn't been a fresh install. Just wasn't patient enough to wait for the new drive to arrive before installing :) Thanks, and as always, keep being awesome!
** Thanks Derek!!, this makes switching from Arch back to Ubuntu so much easier! (lol) Gparted is ok, I like KDE Partition Manager better. Love your new pop filter, I was going to suggest the BSW, which is small and clean. You can put it a lot closer to the mic too.
My old installation used to be symlinked together, I had manually symlinked about half the folders within /home to another drive. It was such a pain when they broke.
I currently have files spread across 3 drives on my main machine. I used to use symlinks to tie it altogether, but this got a little bit irritating when moving around the directory tree caused relative links to misbehave. So lately I have decided to try bind mounts instead.
@DistorTube I would like to thank you for this information.... I would just like to bring it to your attention that the link to this blog article is broken.... I had no problem finding the information on your website but thought you might want to know.... Great information thanks.
in my opinon man, I feel like there is a surge of new linux people trying to rice their WM/DE and what not. what do you think about doing in depth tutorials on config customization explaining why you do what you do in your dotfiles, and throwing them up on your main site maybe even monetize them behind patroen . just a suggestion, keep doing the good the work!
I prefer using a dedicated partition/drive for data files, HOME is mostly for transitory and local packages files. HOME is usually a big source of issues between distros and BSD family!
Wow! I just did this same thing but just for my /Video folder. Two days ago.... I added a 1tb HDD to the system and it is mounted to my /home/Videos folder... It has the hold drive just for movies.... :-D Now when I reinstall I'll just tell it NOT to format that drive on installation and use that drive for my /Videos folder... Thanks DT LLAP
Thanks - I screwed up my / and made it 10gb instead of 100gb originally, so i redid everything but figured i could be sneaky and keep my /home on the larger partition, but instead it created a new one on root (/). so i essentially wiped the old partition and followed this, along with Jeffrey's comment for safety on keeping /home~ in case of mistakes. nice.
I was wondering if you could put /boot efi, /root on one disk (sda) ------- /home on other disk (sdb)…I won't be using a swap partition, I'll be making a swap file. This would be at install. I will be using 2 NVMe drives. I used SATA drives in this example but it's still the same.
Good vid. Isn't an inspection mount to /home (7:08) not needed? It was unmounted soon (8:16). Instead, we could qc-inspect sd[a]1 contents back at /mnt/tmp/ (6:19), especially helped by powerful rsync -c checksum flag?
As always: thanks for the great, informative, easy to follow content. :) But: WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED TO DO THIS, MAN???? Haha I did this a while back, though I would have preferred to learn how from you :)
I've already got my home directory on another drive where I want it, so I'm here for the part where it's permanently mounted. Thank you! Question: Are these instructions also for if your home directory is [to be] on the same disk but different partition?
i am gettin glogged out after the reboot ( after making all the changes ) tried 5-6 times watching the video and then ur written instructions on the blog also.
Didn't know that move is such a revelation. I'm using a separate drive for the homedir for years on my laptop. On my desktop the homedir sits on a separate partition, which I unmount when upgrading, etc.
Cool Stuff DT, I am on the way to my LPIC 1,2,3 Exam. Maybe in about 8 month I will finish this and can get a job in this area? Then, I will contribute to your account. I like your Stuff !!!
I have been doing this on Windows too with each directory for downloads music documents etc. Even for my email profile. Never tried the home folder completely because I could never tell how much space I need and also so that reinstalling will delete all my configs to start fresh. I am diatrohopping with the same distro for a while now. Just moved to kubuntu and looks awesome.
id take ntfs for the seperate drive since then i can also use that same drive on a windows installation if i really want to (dual boot systems come to mind) also it could be a good idea to move your syslogs and that kinda stuff somewhere seperate just so that if anything fails you can easily go through them and investigate
I've only installed Linux on laptops with single drives so far, my main desktop is still windows. This will be very useful when I finally get around to going full Linux. Plus my main laptop can get a M.2 ssd put in it, which I plan on doing, making it a two hard drive machine.
I am getting into using raspberry pis. If you boot from an SD card or flash drive, your boot drive will have very limited space.. Pi OSes also tend to assume they boot on a single drive system. Mounting and additional flash drive can double your storage space. You can also clone that carefully crafted boot device or your data drive. Flash media, SD cards or flash drives have limited write cycle. I have lost data relying on an SD card without proper backups. It was my own writing,. I type very slowly, so that was days of work lost. Please be careful.
It would be a nice to have a tutorial in which you install a different distro keeping the same home or multiple distros with the same /home. (Ubuntu and Arco). Is not so scary as it seems and when a linux user start distro hopping is a useful knowledge.
Removing the home folder was not a good idea: you don't have a backup of your data in the home folder at least in the VM. It would have been better to have a well thought partitioning scheme before installing the system. Now if you didn't put your /home on a separate drive during the installation then it would be better to copy the data from the huge subfolders under /home/dt to that separate drive and create a symlink between these subfolders (for instance ln -s /mnt/tmp/Music /home/dt/Music). You still need to have a backup of these data. Look also at the comment of Myszka! Cheers
@11:31 - fstab file the '0' is for 'used by dump tool, 0 meaning don’t dump if filesystem is not present.' and the '2' = used by fsck tool for discovering filesystem check order, this value means check this device after root filesystem.'. source: search online for 'How to Move Home Directory to New Partition or Disk in Linux' and check out the techmint article. TH-cam dosen't seem to like us posting links
I know this is old video, dt.........The only thing missing is the procedure for actually doing a recovery if your boot drive fails. Secondly. your link for the blog post is not showing up because you restructured the site and instead of blog, the link is articles. You might want to edit these notes on the video. Just sayin...
7:06 - /dev/sdb1 is already mounted in /mnt/tmp ( 6:17 ) and what you see in Nemo is different mount point: /media/$USER/$UUID (look in Nemo title bar...)
fair enough, but you can mount drives wherever you want infinitely many times too, so it doesn't really matter what was the mountpoint that nemo found when it's the same drive
I always split my root and home directories over two drives. Problem is, my root directory is on an SSD, and my /Home directory isn't. So it gets a little slower when i do that. But with the video editing and other data that i'm always moving around, it's a compromise that i need to take. As i'm saving read/writes against my SSD. Oh well.
mmmh mounting somewhere like ~/ is actually not that dumb i always went with moving everything over and creating a symbolic link ... depending on how crazy you go with this you may encounter some trouble though. i have done such stuff for some logfile paths and when you detach the drive the system did not want to finish booting until the drive was present again. so know what your in for
Been thinking about testing this. I use a separate home partition (one hard drive in my computer), but I never tested installing Linux mounting an existing home partition. Should test it out.
I probably have a dumb question but I have not found the answer online. I have a ssd that 250gb and a hdd that is 20tb the ssd has / and my hdd has my /home on it. If I decided to change distros I'm on (Arch base sys) can I switch to a Debian or a Redhat base linux with out without messing up the app or data that on my home directory ? (I know I can go from Arch to Arch base sys )
9:39 let me back into the Lock Screen but every time I enter my password the screen goes black and puts me back into the Lock Screen. I’ve tried rebooting through the tty but nothing happens. Please help.
thanks for the tutorial, its been a long time since i had to move my home folder, this was really helpful, btw....i like nano much more then vim or vi lol
hie... I am using CentOs 6.10... followed the steps to move home directory.. and i could do succesfully....but there is an issue... result for df -Th is given below... which is fine: Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 ext4 33G 4.3G 27G 14% / tmpfs tmpfs 763M 220K 763M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda3 ext4 40G 29G 9.3G 76% /home but when I check on disk usage analyzer... the root is showing 100% filled... which means its eating up space for earlier /home... please help me out... PS: I am a newbie to linux...
Hello man. I have two drives on my computer. I installed playonlinux on my Linux mint which is currently saved in my home directory as '''PlayonLinux virtual drives" folder on one of my drives where my OS is running. It really took a lot of space. How can I move this folder from my home directory where it is currently stored to the other drive on my computer and create a symbolic link so that my computer thinks it is still in its old location. I really need this space and I would appreciate it if you make a video on this. Thanks man.
Hello man. I have two drives on my computer. I installed playonlinux on my Linux mint which is currently saved in my home directory as '''PlayonLinux virtual drives" folder on one of my drives where my OS is running. It really took a lot of space. How can I move this folder from my home directory where it is currently stored to the other drive on my computer and create a symbolic link so that my computer thinks it is still in its location. I really need this space and I would appreciate it if you make a video on this. Thanks man.
Can someone create a seperate virtual disk in VirtualBox and use it for various different Linux operating systems? It seems like a handy option if there are a lot of config files. I myself do all my testing in VirtualBox. I'm running Debian and Arch right now. But I'm experimenting with XMonad and Openbox on both. If I create a new installation of let's say Debian with a seperate virtual disk for the home folder. Can I use that virtual disk for another distirbution and add it after the installation of that operating system? Nice video (as always). Greetings from Belgium.
It is advised to reinstall the same distro if you are doing this with your entire /home. Because the config files for your old distro might not work with the new distro.
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Well, you don't have to use the same distro, but if you don't you'll have to keep track of all of the config files and you'll probably have to fix some things. Simply selectively deleting old config files will work 90% of time, as most programs will just revet to defaults. But some more opinionated distros may not work properly if they do not have the config files they ship with, so there might be a lot of manual intervention needed, to the point it may just be easier to copy all of the documents, music, videos, etc.. to a new home directory after the installation.
Rather than removing everything under /home ("sudo rm -rf /home/*"), it is much safer to rename the home directory ("sudo mv /home /home~") and then create a separate empty home directory for the mount point ("sudo mkdir /home"). This way, all your data is still under /home~/username. After you've tested everything including automounting the new home directory on the second drive, then you can delete /home~ if you wish.
Jeffrey Merrick while doing this your tip helped me a lot. if i werent to do this i had lost my home folder lol. i renamed mine to homey xd
Well, I lost everything lmao.. should've checked the comments sooner
@@viego29 well, first thing before messing with your system is always BACKUP. cant go wrong with that.
Okay so following linear left towards right logic, you are saying:
type "sudo mv /home /home~" which will move /home to the NEW drive "/home~" then typing "sudo mkdir /home~" will make the new drive file the new directory.
Thanks for helping me wipe all my data 11:38
I was just about to do this for myself then you post the video! What fortunate timing
OMG same!
@6:49 - just in case anyone is wondering rsync -x option means 'don't cross filesystem boundaries', so if you happen to have a soft link (or hard link?) file that links to a file on another mount point do not copy those files (on that difference mount point)
I just want to echo what DT pointed out earlier: if it is the /home directory you're moving (or any other directory where config files are kept), it's a good idea to do the entire process in tty, because you can potentially break your system (nothing unfixable, but still, why worry about that). If it is only music or videos or things like that, then it's fine to do it in the GUI. If you don't already know how to edit a text file in tty, learn that first. You can use nano, vim, or even ed, the standard text editor (depending on whether you're a noob, pro, or hacker, respectively).
Also, if this is the first time you're doing this, have your /home directory backed up to an external drive, just in case you delete it before actually copying it. That would really be a shame :D
In fact, it's a good idea to have your /home directory backed up on an external (unplugged) drive anyway, just in case of a hardware failure or something like that. But that's just common sense.
For some years now it has been my practice to have the OS install in its own partition, even with only one drive. Allocate one partition of, say, 50GB for the OS, and a second one of the same size, initially left unused. All the rest is for /home. On today’s multi-terabyte drives, this is no big deal.
What’s the second OS-sized partition for, you may ask? That’s if you want to try out another distro without wiping out your original OS install. You can point its /home directory at the same one used by the first install, and have all your user files immediately available under the new OS without having to copy them back and forth.
Followed the steps, now nothing in my Linux is working, can't open anything, can't click on anything, brother wtf, everything was fine until the deleting process, followed the command, and boom
I still can't believe a faster way hasn't been created yet. Try doing this to twenty+ separate machines. Even Win10 is better at this.
I would love to see a video of installing a new OS while keeping the /home directory.
Derek, thanks a lot for such an informative video! Logically, the next one should be about how to configure the fstab file, when different drives (SSD, HHD) are available... e.g. a SSD for the system, and a couple of HDDs for data storage... Once again, minor features and nuancies you describe so well matter!
You don't understand how much this helped
Thank you, Derek. ~ is bloat. Seriously, good and clear presentation.
thank you dt. I'm a noob and you made such a complex operation so easy to understand. i'll definitely support you on patreon once i'm employed.
hows the employment thing going
followed instructions
went into TTY, rmed my /home/, had to add a -R as it was not empty :)
went to switch back to plasma session
made me log in
i'd log in and it'd blink and go right back to the login prompt
fortunately I remembered /etc/fstab - and it had a comment in it that reminded me the command to get the UUID.
Muddled my way through executing the command *from within nano* so I could mark, copy, paste with Nano's horrible default keybindings (I have no /home, so I have no .nanorc)
So just from my hairbrained memory, I was able to get my new /home/ filled in on the fstab file.
Rebooted and viola!
The login loop would've made me super nervous if it hadn't been a fresh install. Just wasn't patient enough to wait for the new drive to arrive before installing :)
Thanks, and as always, keep being awesome!
** Thanks Derek!!, this makes switching from Arch back to Ubuntu so much easier! (lol) Gparted is ok, I like KDE Partition Manager better. Love your new pop filter, I was going to suggest the BSW, which is small and clean. You can put it a lot closer to the mic too.
I approve of more DT tutorials :D Nicely explained dude.
My old installation used to be symlinked together, I had manually symlinked about half the folders within /home to another drive. It was such a pain when they broke.
I've been doing that with a single link to a directory on my 2nd drive. The only annoyance is navigating to it when saving/opening files.
I currently have files spread across 3 drives on my main machine. I used to use symlinks to tie it altogether, but this got a little bit irritating when moving around the directory tree caused relative links to misbehave. So lately I have decided to try bind mounts instead.
@DistorTube I would like to thank you for this information.... I would just like to bring it to your attention that the link to this blog article is broken.... I had no problem finding the information on your website but thought you might want to know.... Great information thanks.
Wow, perfect execution of a tutorial video Derek!
in my opinon man, I feel like there is a surge of new linux people trying to rice their WM/DE and what not. what do you think about doing in depth tutorials on config customization explaining why you do what you do in your dotfiles, and throwing them up on your main site maybe even monetize them behind patroen . just a suggestion, keep doing the good the work!
I prefer using a dedicated partition/drive for data files, HOME is mostly for transitory and local packages files. HOME is usually a big source of issues between distros and BSD family!
Wow! I just did this same thing but just for my /Video folder. Two days ago.... I added a 1tb HDD to the system and it is mounted to my /home/Videos folder... It has the hold drive just for movies.... :-D
Now when I reinstall I'll just tell it NOT to format that drive on installation and use that drive for my /Videos folder...
Thanks DT
LLAP
Thanks - I screwed up my / and made it 10gb instead of 100gb originally, so i redid everything but figured i could be sneaky and keep my /home on the larger partition, but instead it created a new one on root (/). so i essentially wiped the old partition and followed this, along with Jeffrey's comment for safety on keeping /home~ in case of mistakes. nice.
I was wondering if you could put /boot efi, /root on one disk (sda) ------- /home on other disk (sdb)…I won't be using a swap partition, I'll be making a swap file. This would be at install.
I will be using 2 NVMe drives. I used SATA drives in this example but it's still the same.
Thanks DT, just what I was looking for!
Good vid. Isn't an inspection mount to /home (7:08) not needed? It was unmounted soon (8:16).
Instead, we could qc-inspect sd[a]1 contents back at /mnt/tmp/ (6:19), especially helped by powerful rsync -c checksum flag?
Thanks dt! Worked smoothly. I just move my entire home directory to an HDD and expanded root to cover the entire SSD
I did not know I needed this up until I saw this. 🤟🤟
As always: thanks for the great, informative, easy to follow content. :) But: WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED TO DO THIS, MAN???? Haha I did this a while back, though
I would have preferred to learn how from you :)
this was tough to follow for a newbie like me, but i managed to follow along with a couple extra google look-ups on how to do this or that
I've already got my home directory on another drive where I want it, so I'm here for the part where it's permanently mounted. Thank you!
Question: Are these instructions also for if your home directory is [to be] on the same disk but different partition?
i am gettin glogged out after the reboot ( after making all the changes )
tried 5-6 times watching the video and then ur written instructions on the blog also.
Didn't know that move is such a revelation. I'm using a separate drive for the homedir for years on my laptop. On my desktop the homedir sits on a separate partition, which I unmount when upgrading, etc.
awesome worked perfectly. and very useful thanks DT !
@12:36 - output with less clutter (we don't really need to see cgroup on entries) is: df -lh
Cool Stuff DT, I am on the way to my LPIC 1,2,3 Exam. Maybe in about 8 month I will finish this and can get a job in this area? Then, I will contribute to your account. I like your Stuff !!!
I have been doing this on Windows too with each directory for downloads music documents etc. Even for my email profile. Never tried the home folder completely because I could never tell how much space I need and also so that reinstalling will delete all my configs to start fresh. I am diatrohopping with the same distro for a while now. Just moved to kubuntu and looks awesome.
Thanks so much - Clear & Concise! Couldn't ask for a better tutorial.
id take ntfs for the seperate drive since then i can also use that same drive on a windows installation if i really want to (dual boot systems come to mind)
also it could be a good idea to move your syslogs and that kinda stuff somewhere seperate just so that if anything fails you can easily go through them and investigate
I've only installed Linux on laptops with single drives so far, my main desktop is still windows. This will be very useful when I finally get around to going full Linux. Plus my main laptop can get a M.2 ssd put in it, which I plan on doing, making it a two hard drive machine.
I am getting into using raspberry pis. If you boot from an SD card or flash drive, your boot drive will have very limited space.. Pi OSes also tend to assume they boot on a single drive system.
Mounting and additional flash drive can double your storage space. You can also clone that carefully crafted boot device or your data drive. Flash media, SD cards or flash drives have limited write cycle. I have lost data relying on an SD card without proper backups. It was my own writing,. I type very slowly, so that was days of work lost. Please be careful.
You could also just create a separate partition for /home
You explained it really well, thanks a lot!
It would be a nice to have a tutorial in which you install a different distro keeping the same home or multiple distros with the same /home. (Ubuntu and Arco). Is not so scary as it seems and when a linux user start distro hopping is a useful knowledge.
Very useful. Thanks for posting
Removing the home folder was not a good idea: you don't have a backup of your data in the home folder at least in the VM. It would have been better to have a well thought partitioning scheme before installing the system. Now if you didn't put your /home on a separate drive during the installation then it would be better to copy the data from the huge subfolders under /home/dt to that separate drive and create a symlink between these subfolders (for instance ln -s /mnt/tmp/Music /home/dt/Music).
You still need to have a backup of these data. Look also at the comment of Myszka!
Cheers
Thanks a lot for this simple and crisp tutorial
Hi, Derek, thanks for your tutorials! I don't know if you know, but your blog appears to be down
You're doing the lord's work. Thank you.
It was a great video
The link to the blog post does not work
@11:31 - fstab file the '0' is for 'used by dump tool, 0 meaning don’t dump if filesystem is not present.' and the '2' = used by fsck tool for discovering filesystem check order, this value means check this device after root filesystem.'. source: search online for 'How to Move Home Directory to New Partition or Disk in Linux' and check out the techmint article. TH-cam dosen't seem to like us posting links
Awesome! Thank you! 💯
Hey DT! Great video. It looks like your blog link is broken. Do you have an updated location for this post?
Can you add this to the Arch wiki? That would be awesome.
This stuff is included in the installation guide for quite a while
I know this is old video, dt.........The only thing missing is the procedure for actually doing a recovery if your boot drive fails. Secondly. your link for the blog post is not showing up because you restructured the site and instead of blog, the link is articles. You might want to edit these notes on the video. Just sayin...
But I want to migrate the hole OS to another disk drive, how is that done?
Thank you. It worked 😊
I thought I had moved my /home to a second partition, but I later found out that I hadn't. I'm trying to correct that now.
Absolutely great!
7:06 - /dev/sdb1 is already mounted in /mnt/tmp ( 6:17 ) and what you see in Nemo is different mount point: /media/$USER/$UUID (look in Nemo title bar...)
I was wondering the same
fair enough, but you can mount drives wherever you want infinitely many times too, so it doesn't really matter what was the mountpoint that nemo found when it's the same drive
11:20 - it doesn't matter how many spaces between the fields?
I always split my root and home directories over two drives. Problem is, my root directory is on an SSD, and my /Home directory isn't. So it gets a little slower when i do that. But with the video editing and other data that i'm always moving around, it's a compromise that i need to take. As i'm saving read/writes against my SSD. Oh well.
mmmh mounting somewhere like ~/ is actually not that dumb i always went with moving everything over and creating a symbolic link ... depending on how crazy you go with this you may encounter some trouble though. i have done such stuff for some logfile paths and when you detach the drive the system did not want to finish booting until the drive was present again. so know what your in for
DT are you prof. Menser? Very similar voice if not.
Been thinking about testing this. I use a separate home partition (one hard drive in my computer), but I never tested installing Linux mounting an existing home partition. Should test it out.
LEGEND
I know it's an old video by now, but shouldn't you include solutions for possible issues that you mentioned?
Could you not use a live cd with chroot if you really wanted to be safe
You still have to backup
100GB of music?
you sure?
800 songs take up like 300MB
im confused
this was so helpful. thank you.
what about backing up applications? would mounting /usr and /etc be enough? would that break something?
I probably have a dumb question but I have not found the answer online. I have a ssd that 250gb and a hdd that is 20tb the ssd has / and my hdd has my /home on it. If I decided to change distros I'm on (Arch base sys) can I switch to a Debian or a Redhat base linux with out without messing up the app or data that on my home directory ? (I know I can go from Arch to Arch base sys )
Could you do this similar thing by making a new partition on the same drive as the OS for your /home directory?
Would this process be the same on Mint Cinnamon 21.3 distro? Thanks!
Quick question: Where do you mount a second drive? /mnt/seconddrive, /media/seconddrive, /home/seconddrive,..?
If I move the home folder does it not move the music folder and all that to the second drive?
Can you specify all this when you partition the drive at install
Thank you
9:39 let me back into the Lock Screen but every time I enter my password the screen goes black and puts me back into the Lock Screen. I’ve tried rebooting through the tty but nothing happens. Please help.
by the way... there is no need for chmod? How did he get tty promt?
thanks for the tutorial, its been a long time since i had to move my home folder, this was really helpful, btw....i like nano much more then vim or vi lol
I have a 64Gb SSD for root and a 250Gb SSD for home and a 4To SSHD for stock and have had that setup for years..!!
That is a lot of GiB dedicated to /
@@_DT_ When I bought the drive, there was only a $3 difference between a 32Gb and a 64Gb, so I got the 64Gb..
Now how would I be able to use this home directory with another distro of Linux? Or maybe even wsl?
what is the difference between vi and vim???
moving files is not a backup...
it is a good idea to still backup your data in another external drive, just in case
hie... I am using CentOs 6.10... followed the steps to move home directory.. and i could do succesfully....but there is an issue...
result for df -Th is given below... which is fine:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext4 33G 4.3G 27G 14% /
tmpfs tmpfs 763M 220K 763M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 ext4 40G 29G 9.3G 76% /home
but when I check on disk usage analyzer... the root is showing 100% filled... which means its eating up space for earlier /home...
please help me out...
PS: I am a newbie to linux...
How to reinstall linux without overwriting the separate home directory?
What if I wanted to encrypt the separate drive?
Hello man. I have two drives on my computer. I installed playonlinux on my Linux mint which is currently saved in my home directory as '''PlayonLinux virtual drives" folder on one of my drives where my OS is running. It really took a lot of space. How can I move this folder from my home directory where it is currently stored to the other drive on my computer and create a symbolic link so that my computer thinks it is still in its old location. I really need this space and I would appreciate it if you make a video on this. Thanks man.
btw do you use middle click paste aka primary selection?
Most of the time I just use middle click for copy/paste. In alacritty, I also have Shift + CTRL + c/v to copy/paste.
@@DistroTube i mean that the shortcut in gnome terminal too but i generally find primary paste easier
Beautiful. Had to use some googlefu to find out how to exit vi but it just works perfectly. Thanks!
Hello man. I have two drives on my computer. I installed playonlinux on my Linux mint which is currently saved in my home directory as '''PlayonLinux virtual drives" folder on one of my drives where my OS is running. It really took a lot of space. How can I move this folder from my home directory where it is currently stored to the other drive on my computer and create a symbolic link so that my computer thinks it is still in its location. I really need this space and I would appreciate it if you make a video on this. Thanks man.
I just watched your video on roll vandapar and yeah your video doesn't answer my question but I guess I should just go on to a form God damn it.
Can someone create a seperate virtual disk in VirtualBox and use it for various different Linux operating systems? It seems like a handy option if there are a lot of config files. I myself do all my testing in VirtualBox. I'm running Debian and Arch right now. But I'm experimenting with XMonad and Openbox on both. If I create a new installation of let's say Debian with a seperate virtual disk for the home folder. Can I use that virtual disk for another distirbution and add it after the installation of that operating system? Nice video (as always). Greetings from Belgium.
Why not use the genfstab command instead of doing it manually?
I was just searching for this the other day lol
Thanks, DT :)
You *don't* have a backup already when your data is on another drive :(
When reinstalling you have to use same distro.
It is advised to reinstall the same distro if you are doing this with your entire /home. Because the config files for your old distro might not work with the new distro.
Well, you don't have to use the same distro, but if you don't you'll have to keep track of all of the config files and you'll probably have to fix some things. Simply selectively deleting old config files will work 90% of time, as most programs will just revet to defaults. But some more opinionated distros may not work properly if they do not have the config files they ship with, so there might be a lot of manual intervention needed, to the point it may just be easier to copy all of the documents, music, videos, etc.. to a new home directory after the installation.