I need some here making sure I understand how to move my home folder to a different partition. I just installed Fedora 30, replacing Ubuntu/POP_OS on a System76 laptop. The new install of Fedora resides the 250GB drive. AS you can tell I limited /home to 1.9GB.
On the old setup, the 1.0TB drive was where /home/username resided and my old files still are there. The 2.0TB drive I use doe downloads, video projects, Music, and VM’s.
How do I do about disabling the 1.9GB home in the new install to point to the old home on the 1.0TB drive?
I can edit the mount points in Disk but I do not want to end up with a broken system .
I do not need to move any files, I am not that concerned with the new home directory, as I have not set up much as of yet.
Edit directory location is ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and run xdg-user-dirs-update
Home
The procedure for this is very similar:
Created temporary mount point for the old home directory on the 1.0TB drive /media/new-home
Mount to test sudo mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxx /media/new-home
Verified this worked
mv HOME sudo mv /home /home-backup
Create home sudo mkdir /home
Changed mount point in Gnome Disk to /home
In this case a refresh would not work and I had to log out and back in … everything worked.
I left /home-backup in place until I am sure the migration is finished and working.