Need to replace my /home partition (entire hd =/~/home) before imminent failure

[CarlosZcat]

Smartctl indicated the possibility of hard drive failure on my /home partition, which is the entire disk.
I have backed up my system and root folder using Timeshift and purchased a new hard drive. What I want to do is mount the new disk as /home and mount and change the name of the old home partition, keeping the contents, so I can later selectively pass some folders to the new home partition. I’m new to Manjaro and I understand that this is a rolling release, so I don’t want to break my system.
Any advise or directions to find my answers will be appreciated.

Best Regards

[Wollie]

Here is a nice tutorial:

Moving /home to second hdd

Welcome to the forum! 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 partition. Alternatively, you can also set a LABEL in the filesystem upon creation, and use the LABEL in /etc/fstab, instead of the UUID. So long as the identifier for the partition is unique and persistent, which unfortunately the /dev/sd[alphabetic_char] designations are not …

[Aragorn]

@Wollie

Here is a nice tutorial:

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 partition. Alternatively, you can also set a LABEL in the filesystem upon creation, and use the LABEL in /etc/fstab, instead of the UUID. So long as the identifier for the partition is unique and persistent, which unfortunately the /dev/sd[alphabetic_char] designations are not …

Here’s an even better (and more recent) one.

[Tip] Root filesystem nearly full but got a spare partition sitting around? Split off some stuff!

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Introduction As you should all already know by now, GNU/Linux is a FLOSS variant of the UNIX operating system design, and UNIX does not know the concept of drive letters, nor does it approach storage from the vantage of having different volumes. Instead, everything is mounted into a uniform directory hierarchy, so that regardless of what physical medium any particular group of files resides on ─ even if this physical medium is actually located in another computer across the…

[CarlosZcat]

Just wanted to say thanks for the tutorials. I’m happy to say the instructions worked fine.
Thanks and best regards.