Move home to direction partition

[eclecticcoding (Chuck Smith)]

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.

[vgaetera (Vladislav Grigoryev)]

Please, collect the related information:

lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,UUID,MOUNTPOINT
grep -v -e "^#" -e "^$" /etc/fstab
sudo vgs; sudo pvs; sudo lvs

@eclecticcoding

I limited /home to 1.9GB

It is 1.9 TB on your screenshot.

[eclecticcoding (Chuck Smith)]

So I was able to get it setup and since I was not moving files and just connecting yo my existing partitions it was easier than I thought.

Storage Partition

This was the easiest.
-Edit mount point in disk (see screenshot) to /media/storage

• Completely close Gnome Disk windows
• Refresh mount sudo mount -a
• The drive is mounted and shows in Files other locations.
  Move file directories (i.e. Downloads, Music, and Pictures) with rsync (Pictures shown):

rsync --archive --progress --human-readable ~/Pictures /media/storage/

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.