Can I change where my /home folder is located?

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I want to make my /home folder on a separate partition on my harddrive. How can I do that, if there is a way?

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asked May 09 '13 at 22:04

BraedenT24

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`/home` folder is in your hard drive, anyway. – Radu Rădeanu May 09 '13 at 22:08
Do you mean that you want your /home folder on a separate partition on your harddisk? Please confirm. – May 09 '13 at 22:10
Yes thats what I mean. – BraedenT24 May 09 '13 at 22:11

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Check out the howto: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving

The basic steps are as follows:

Setup your new partition
Backup and edit your fstab to mount the new partition as /media/home (just for the time being) and reboot.
Use rsync to migrate all data from /home into /media/home.
Edit fstab again so the new partition mounts as /home instead of /media/home but not reboot just yet.
Move /home to /old_home and reboot
Delete /old_home.

answered May 09 '13 at 22:14

Radu Rădeanu

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