I just installed Manjaro and I want to mount my previous /home partition as my current /home directory/partition. The previous one is currently mounted as /dev/sda4. I don’t know how to work with partitions and stuff that much, so please keep it stupid simple.

See this: [image] Moving /home to second hdd Support Welcome to the forum! slight_smile First things first… Did you already create a new partition for /home on the other drive? If not, do so, and after you’ve created and formatted it, use lsblk to get the UUID of the pa…

provided it was indeed a previous /home (ext4) partition; first run; lsblk -f find the relevant UUID for sda4 then add this to /etc/fstab; UUID=<UUID-of-sda4> /home ext4 nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 2 you may additionally have to move/backup the existing /home directory (created by fres…

[image] koshikas: you may additionally have to move/backup the existing /home directory (created by fresh manjaro install) sudo mv /home /homebak reboot and see if everything is back, if everything s ok, remove backup home sudo rm -fr /homebak Bad advice, Brother. /home is a system direct…

guilty as charged! oops, horrible advise indeed from my part, on the absent /home to mount in the first place. i guess we all ought to help the problem at hand and I messed it up while trying to keep it “stupid simple” i guess. the only real attempt thus so far has instructions to move home directo…

How to mount another partition as /home?

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anon89812132 5 September 2022 06:38 2

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