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cybercountry

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Registered: 2023-08-08

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Move /home to a new SSD

I recently purchased a new SSD, bought it to use /home separately, so that I have more storage space.But I find myself without knowing how to move /Home to the new SSD.
The main SSD with the /Home uses the BTRFS file system, and in this case I want to move the @home subvolume.

I thank any help.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Move /home to a new SSD

For the traditional file based method: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rsync# … em_cloning

For the  Btrfs method: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Send/receive

cybercountry

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Registered: 2023-08-08

Posts: 10

Re: Move /home to a new SSD

Should I create a directory in the new SSD to move the @home subvolume?For example:

mkdir /mnt/new
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/new -o subvolid=5

After that I should send the @home content to this new directory and assemble it as @home

What I have in mind would be something like this, and then change the fstab