Can I change where my /home folder is located?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.