Separate /home partition

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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Thiago Cavalcante
<tlcavalcante at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/15 Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com>:
>> going slightly OT, I recently filled my main hard drive and have purchased a
>> new 1TB hard drive.
>> How do I transfer my /home onto this new drive?
>> Jacob Mansfield
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> Format the new disk, copy the files from /home and change it to
> /etc/fstab with the new path.
>

Hmmm, yes.  Easy to do but a little more complicated than that one
sentence suggests. Here is a good guide.

http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/

It's a few years old, but I think still valid.