I have the /home folder on the same disk as the root, and I was planning to move it to another SSD drive ("ssd1" in the picture), which is already connected and containing some data:
I checked the devices info with lsblk, and I got:
sda 8:0 0 1,8T 0 disk /media/sda1nvme1n1 259:0 0 477G 0 disk ├─nvme1n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi├─nvme1n1p2 259:2 0 1K 0 part └─nvme1n1p5 259:3 0 476,4G 0 part /nvme0n1 259:4 0 1,9T 0 disk └─nvme0n1p1 259:5 0 1,9T 0 part /media/ssd1
So, I was planning to do the following:
- Make a backup of the original home folder:
sudo mv /home /home_orig sudo mkdir /home
- unmount the partition on the SSD disk from where it is now (/media) and mount it to the new /home folder:
sudo umount /dev/nvme0n1p1sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /home
- finally, make a backup of the original fstab file, and modify it this way:
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_origsudo nano /etc/fstabUUID=<> /home ext4 defaults 0 2
Is this the correct procedure? I checked this link and this other answer, but the situation seems slightly different than mine...mostly, I'm worried about potentially deleting the data already present on ssd1.