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how do I set /home on another partition?

I recently started keeping /home on a different hard drive partition. But on my latest reinstallation of one of the distros I use (heavily modified antiX), I forgot to specify where /home would be located, so it was of course installed on the same partition. Now that installation is complete and I am running the installed distro, how can I change the location of /home to the partition where I wanted it? I tried "adduser" with --home /sda1, but that didn't work (I didn't think it would)...

If I understand you correctly, you would need to create a partition on sda (if that's your new drive), copy all the files from /home into that partition, then edit your /etc/fstab file to mount /dev/<new partition> as /home. For example, my fstab:

Code:

# 

# /etc/fstab: static file system information

#

# <file system>        <dir>        <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>

devpts                /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0

shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs    nodev,nosuid        0      0

/dev/sda12 /boot ext4 defaults 0 1

/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

LABEL=ARCH / ext4 defaults 0 1

/dev/sda6 /home ext4 defaults 0 1

Here, I'm mounting /dev/sda6 onto /home with the ext4 file system - you'd replace sda6 with whatever the name of your new home partition is.

Hope this helps,

The partition is already prepared. So I just add "/home" to the relevant line in fstab? I see, thanks.

You also should move over (not copy) the files in your actual /home to the partition you want to use for /home, so that your users configuration files will be there.