By centg3
Hi, I wanted to ask if we can add a block storage and then move /home there. That’s an easy process when installing ubuntu to a laptop with say 2 partitions but is this possible in these mounted volumes?
Thanks in advance
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Yeah you can, it’s quite simple to do
- mount your new block storage at let’s say /mnt
- rsync /home over to /mnt
- delete everything from /home (this is optional to create more space for root partition, MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS THERE BEFORE DELETING)
- unmount /mnt
- mount the new storage with fstab to /home to have it mount on bootup
Well, this seems not to work anymore. Now they have some stupid thing called /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO and I can’t change my location of the home with the above instructions. When I delete the home and mount it as above the home is gone when I reboot my system. Happy that I made a snapshot before I took this action.
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