• katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    the one thing i wish i knew when i first installed linux was to put /home on another drive (i do symlink downloads and anything else now but i wish i did it on my desktop when i first switched)

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      3 days ago

      Are you meaning on a different partition or a completely different hard drive?

      • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        well my desktop has the main ssd where i installed it too but that is pretty small while the second drive is something like 2tb so that’s where i would have put it. its honestly not bad now i had a brief panic where it ran out but ive symlinked a lot in /home over to the new place its just wish i understood the advanced partitioning when i first set it up that’s all.

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          3 days ago

          Not too difficult to fix this in post.

          1. Turn off, boot from a USB
          2. Copy all home to drive
          3. Delete home from old drive
          4. Add fstab entry
          5. ???
          6. Lose all data (but usually profit)
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            3 days ago

            You say it’s not too difficult, but, I guarantee you, if I tried to do this, I’d lose not only my /home, but also my game drive. I’m that kind of dumb.