Moving "/home" From One Device To Another

[robbie-hatley]

I’m on a new computer I just built, and it’s working pretty good. However, I made a bit of an omission and I’m not sure of the best way to fix it. When I ran the Manjaro installer, it only offered partitioning suggestions for Disk0 (500GB SSD), so I forgot to set Disk1 (2TB SSD) to mount as “/home”. So my “/home” is now on Disk0, which isn’t what I wanted.

So, what’s the best way to move /home from Disk0 to Disk1?

One idea that did occur to me was this:

1. Add a line to /etc/fstab to mount the UUID of Disk1 as “/home”
2. sudo systemctl daemon-reload
3. Log out
4. Log-in on TTY2 as root
5. mv /home /home_OLD
6. mkdir /home
7. mount /home
8. cp -R -p /home_OLD/* /home/

Would that work?

And even if that would work, seems a tad complicated; is there any better way to move “/home” from one device to another?

[linux-aarhus]

There is several topics in #contributions:tutorials which explains how to achieve this.

• [root tip] [How To] Move my home (content) to another partition
• Moving /home to second hdd - #2 by Aragorn
• [Tip] Root filesystem nearly full but got a spare partition sitting around? Split off some stuff!

[robbie-hatley]

@linux-aarhus

Moving /home to second hdd - #2 by Aragorn

Ok, I went there, and near the end someone made the off-handed suggestion “either that, or use a live environment” which was an idea I hadn’t thought of. So I rebooted from my Manjaro install USB stick, mounted Disk0 as “/disk0”, mounted Disk1 as “/disk1”, renamed “/disk0/home” to “/disk0/home_OLD”, did “cp -R -p /disk0/home_OLD/* /disk1/”, added a line to “/disk0/etc/fstab” to mount Disk1’s UUID as “/home”, and restarted. Everything works. I’ll mark your post as “Solution”. Thanks for the help!