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I have everything currently installed on a 120GB SSD. I've recently installed a 2nd drive (480 ssd) which I've partitioned for about 90% personal use and 10% in case I add 'other' purposes. I@ve not yet stated a mount point in fstab.

I want to shift my complete home folder to this drive (its main partition).

I know the answer is 'google it', and I've done that but can't seem to get a definitive answer and nothing directly referring to 18.04.

Can someone please point me towards a good guide for doing this? Do I need to boot into a live distro?

Many thanks.

Roger06
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Please keep /home itself at the same disk that has your system files and ONLY move your personal directories. Move the directories in your /home to your new destination and alter ~./config/users-dirs.dirs to reflect this change.

Reason: in the case your 2nd disk does not mount your /home is not mounted leaving you with a broken system.

I have not yet stated a mount point in fstab.

You do need to do this first though. Have a look at ...

Rinzwind
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Changing user-dirs.dirs seems to have no affect. I've also tested in a VM running Mint and it does not change the location of one of the folders. Is there something else that needs to run? Does fstab need another addition?

Thanks

Roger06
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