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scharles

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Registered: 2016-09-21

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Advice on new Arch Install Partitions

Hello, I recently completed a new Arch Install. I partitioned my hard drive as follows to have a partition dedicated for the OS and another dedicated for data.

Device       Boot     Start                   End             Sectors        Size        Id     Type
/dev/sda1            2048               31459327       31457280     15G        83     Linux
/dev/sda2        31459328           975177727     943718400   450G      83     Linux
/dev/sda3       975177728          977274879     2097152       1G          82     Linux swap / Solaris

sda1 is supposed to be for my OS and i was hoping that all my data under /home/user/ would fall into sda2. However I noticed that everything is being stored in saved in sda1. Does anybody know how i can move user data over to sda2 so that all data that would fall under /home directory gets saved there?

Thanks

barriehie

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Registered: 2016-09-20

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Re: Advice on new Arch Install Partitions

Please post your /etc/fstab file and we'll have to something to start with.  :-)

ewaller

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Re: Advice on new Arch Install Partitions

Sounds like you did not mount sda2 on /home.  What is the output of mount   ?
How are  you booting?  This must a MBR system without a separate boot partition.

BTW:  Welcome to Arch Linux

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ralvez

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Re: Advice on new Arch Install Partitions

A quick way to see your file system layout and mount points is using lsblk
My system for example shows:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
fd0      2:0    1     4K  0 disk 
sda      8:0    0  31.5G  0 disk 
└─sda1   8:1    0  31.5G  0 part /backups
sdb      8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk /mnt/eHDD
sdc      8:32   0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sdc1   8:33   0     2G  0 part [SWAP]
├─sdc2   8:34   0   200G  0 part /
└─sdc3   8:35   0 729.5G  0 part /home
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  

Hope this helps.

R.