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catnap

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[WORKAROUND] Moving /home to and existing partition

Previously, I've been using an installation of Arch Linux that has the OS on an SSD and a /home directory on a separate HDD. However, the Seagate HDD has started to make an annoying rumbling noise, perhaps owing to its old age. I've, therefore, unplugged the power from the HDD temporarily. The downside of this temporary arrangement is that the files that reside on my /home directory have become inaccessible. I'm therefore considering to migrate my /home directory to the SSD. It has two partitions:

NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                    
├─sda1
│    vfat                                                       /boot/efi
└─sda2
     ext4                                                       /

There seem to be good guides on how to move the home directory to a new partition that is created specifically for this purpose. Guide. This approach is admittedly more sensible in most situations. But my priority is mainly to resolve the current contingency and avoiding the extra step of creating a new partition seems to be the quicker way to move forward. I would therefore like to migrate the /home folder into the same partition with the root folder.

[EDIT] How to migrate the home folder to an existing partition?

Last edited by catnap (2020-04-07 20:42:35)

WorMzy

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Re: [WORKAROUND] Moving /home to and existing partition

Okay? What is your question (and why have you posted this in the Installation subforum..?)

Mod note: Moving to NC.

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V1del

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Re: [WORKAROUND] Moving /home to and existing partition

Mount the existing partition somewhere else, mkdir a home on root,

cp -a $otherlocation/$youruser /home/

or use rsync: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rs … lternative

catnap

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Re: [WORKAROUND] Moving /home to and existing partition

I finally decided to go by the recommended way, by creating a new partition for the /home folder. That arrangement works nicely.