How to Store Your Personal Home Files on a Separate Disk on Linux

Recommended to use the UUID number to identify the drive/partition in the /etc/fstab file rather than the /dev/sdXY notation as the UUID never changes whereas the /dev/sdXY notation can change if another device is connected to the system. A well explained video anyway!

Something I ran into was with virtual machines. QEMU/KVM/Virt Manager defaults to saving virtual machines in the root directory. I moved the VM storage directory to inside Home on the second disk.

If for some reasons like UBoot, you cannot use VLM, this is the only solution to extend storage capacity. Great video! Now I can rest my week long search.

this tutorial saved me!!! easy to understand and follow along, couldn't have done it without you!

My first time to your channel. Great explanation of how to do those things. I set my system up this way many years ago, and now I'm getting ready to move from Linux Lite 2.8 based on Ubuntu 14 LTS over to MX-23 Linux. I have never done a distro replacement before, but from all I have read, it's suggested that I rename the /home directory to something like /home-backup (lives on my second drive of course), then do the installation of the new OS replacing my existing old Linux product and reboot. I will need to also move some files in .config to bring over my old setups for things like Google Chrome and Firefox, etc. I'm still doing research to insure I have not forgotten anything and of course I'll take full backups of my boot drive and 2nd drive before attempting to do this. Everyone has to do it at least every 4 years, but it's hard to find videos explaining how to do it to preserve your settings and all of your /home directory files, but I'm learning every day. Thanks again for sharing this information, I have subscribed and will be watching more of your channel.

I partitioned in D drive , Now i can't see the D drive in my windows, I've Ubuntu and Windows 10 dual boot . can you please help me undo this process and help me access D drive through Windows

I already did it by myself but it was a great tutorial with great knowledge and a very good explanation.

I am new to Linux If i got it right i can outsurce /Home/User/Downloads to a noter Drive and it will act as the native folder? o,O

Hi Planet Linux! My 500gb ssd is almost full so I installed a second 1T ssd for my Home folder. I followed your video step by step for moving /home on an already installed Linux Mint. The problem that I have now is that Linux Mint doesn't accept my admin password. It doesn't show invalid password but the screen appears black for a moment and then again the field for password is shown.

I have a 2TB disk with LM19.3 that was using up the whole space so after following yr great tutorial I moved all my /home files to a /home partition on a second disk. But now when I try to install LM21.1 on a 250GB at the beginning of the large disk the install crashes. What do you think? Is this caused by the separate /home partition?

Thank you for this easy to follow video. If I had to re-install ubuntu would I just create the files on the smaller disc and leave the larger disk alone?

I have a 4TB HDD already with files, but at less than 50% capacity. Can I use the remaining 50% space for my /root directory, transfer all my files to it, and then expend it?

You sir, are an excellent teacher. This was a terrific tutorial and was exactly what I was looking for. I just installed mint on the smaller SSD and realized that I unintentionally created a dual boot system as windows was still installed on the disk drive. I wanted to do exactly what this tutorial covers however, I think I will just reinstall since it's brand-spanking new lol!

I use old T/W 520/530 Thinkpads. I can have as many as 3 onboard hdds, one mSATA in the cellular chip slot under the keyboard, one in the usual "main" slot, and a 3rd in the swap bay hdd all buss connected. VERY much better and faster than a USB connected external drive.

I've been trying to find how to do this for literal years and it's been a big reason I haven't switched to Linux yet. It seems so basic, but no combination of search terms brought up how to do it. This is exactly what I wanted, thank you!

Appreciate the video. Helped me out.

Exceptionally good explanation which I can follow as a beginner and not just retire something but learn what I’m doing. Thanks!

Install linux without overwriting a separate partition for the home directory?

We're on NVME gen 5 right now, kind of strange watching a video telling people we're still using HDDs.

Many thanks for making this video. It was really useful.

if you have programs installed on the home disk and you move the disk to somewhere else, say a laptop, that has the same linux. Will those programs work?

This is an excellent tutorial. You're not showing off, and you're not talking down to your audience. And the content is clearly explained. This earns you a new subscriber. 👍

Hi! It is great video, I followed it step by step. The only problem that I have now is that Linux Mint doesn't accept my admin password. It doesn't show invalid password but the screen appears black for a moment and then again the field for password is shown.

So so helpful, thank you.

Is there any reason why you couldn't relocate sun folders? A set up in thinking of is to have root on my smallest, fastest drive. /home on a second SSD and then /home/photos on a much larger hard drive.

So a three drive set up.

My reasoning is I have a lot of photos.

Thank you for the easy to understand video. I've been frustrated with many of the videos about the same topic. But what should I do if I have a legacy motherboard and not UEFI?

What happens if you want good OPSEC and want to have your personal hard drive with /home on it LUKS encrypted?
How will the system boot? and is it able to be booted without a /home

Now, show us what to do if the os drive fails and we add a new drive for the os while keeping our home.

tysm for the tutorial!!

Is this also applyable for Fedor 37?

Very good explained, but I have a question, i tried to move /home on hdd from ssd but I watched another tut and after I did everything great, but when I restart the pc I see that I can t login and I was chatched on a login loop, I understand the problem is that /boot dir isn t on the same drive like /home or smth, can you please tell me that if I do everything like you explained on the tut, is the risk that can I get this problem again after i do everything like in you re tut? Thank you!

Thank you so much for creating this tutorial! I will need to upgrade my Linux Mint version soon, and this will be so helpful.

Thank you so much, It's 1am In my country and luckily you save my day. You deserve more subscribes.

FINALLY I've stumbled across someone who can explain Linux to me in a way I can understand and follow. This video was just perfect. Thank you so much.

very helpful, but us non english spoken, it would be useful to texte all you do on vdo. however, this is the best explanations i never found in my researches.

Its worked!!! Took me 8hrs to finally get it all fixed. The first tutorial messed up my hard drive and put me in emergency mode. Urs worked

You just got a new subscriber! awsome explanation. Thank you

Thank you.

Man you are really a linux god, explained really well!

Was hoping for information about how you use this setup to restore a broken system.

Question: if the snap folder moves with the home folder into the slow HDD, does that mean that programs will be installed to the HDD and will boot up slowly?

Excellent video!! Thanks so much for your clear explanation!! 😀

Been doing this for over a year now-- and it's encrypted too... and an external backup stored elsewhere-- NOT on any damn cloud-- never put stuff on the "cloud"-- where any govt. group or anyone with $$$ can get to it easily!!

This is very very underrated. You are explaining things like teaching a child. Very detailed. I am certainly waiting for more tricks with terminal ( sudo )

Very well explained! I'm a beginner and I must say your videos are some of the best.
I'm going to do what you are explaining in this video but I have a question: how can I set up /home in two hdd in raid 1 (mirrored)?
Thank you for your work. 👍