Move /home directory to another partition

[kgbeast]

I want to create a new partition to which I want to move my /home directory in case anything happens to my Fedora 33 installation, my files and documents are safe. I tried to do this in my out but after I partition the drive, the 2nd partition is not mounted at / but somewhere like /usr/“my user name”/home…. I haven’t found anything on the internet about my particular concern and I don’t want to mess with my install as of now. Feel free to ask for any info that you might need to help me out. Thank you!

[augenauf (Flo)]

Before you do anything, make a backup on an external disk that you put away while trying this!

Please see if the following questions are useful:

hos7ein/haproxy-centos-7.2

haproxy 1.6 for CentOS 7.2 x86-64 Instructions not filled in by author. Author knows what to do. Everybody else should avoid this repo. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/hos7ein/haproxy-centos-7.2/

From old Q/A forum, but don’t see why it wouldn’t apply:

https://askbot.fedoraproject.org/en/question/75861/move-home-to-a-new-partition/

https://askbot.fedoraproject.org/en/question/76063/trying-to-move-home-to-a-new-partition/

Alternatively, make backups and reinstall Fedora, choose the right partition layout from the start.

[kgbeast]

How big is the risk of losing my data if I attend this with no backup since I don’t have an external drive? And I also have only one 512 SSD in my computer.

[sideburns (Joe Zeff)]

If you don’t have an external hard drive, use a flash drive.

[ilikelinux (Ilikelinux (l.s.))]

@kgbeast

How big is the risk of losing my data if I attend this with no backup

Big enough to get annoyed when something happens and you lose some pictures, videos, documents etc. where are important to you !

Please show us how it looks on the HD.
In Terminal type (or cut n paste):

df -h  /  /home

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Keep in mind that this risk exists all the time, not just when you’re doing particularly-risky operations. Drive failures are inevitable — it’s just a matter of how long it will be until it happens. It’s really worthwhile to make sure you have a daily backup to at least an external drive or networked system, and ideally to somewhere off-site (easy now with cloud providers).

[kgbeast]

I will try.

[kgbeast]

[kgbeast@vx512 ~]$ df -h / /home
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p3 476G 128G 348G 27% /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 476G 128G 348G 27% /home

[kgbeast]

I will make backups but only after I install a second drive into my laptop. Thank you!