/home on external drive

[Aragorn]

@damase

First, I am not sure this is the correct area for this, so I apologize ahead of time if it is not.
I am trying to put /home on an external drive adding to the /home on the SSD in my laptop.

Are you saying that you want to keep the /home on your SSD but you want to add a partition on an external drive to your existing /home?

@damase

I can change it to /home but when I mount it KDE starts giving me major problems, like when I click on an icon on the taskbar it says there is no such folder and clicking on restart gets no response whatsoever. Eventually kwin completely crashes and I cannot boot into the machine at all. Have to start from scratch.

What is the filesystem type on that external partition?

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