Moving $HOME to a separate data partition?

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:48:23 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>This will leave about 160 GiB of empty space in the drive but will simplify
>future backups of the system drive considerably. It only uses 14 GiB now when I
>subtract the space for /home_backup.

Now I am done fixing up the hard drive on the Ubuntu server 18.04 PC.
Final layout is:
sda1: 30 GiB    system (boot) (14 GiB used)
sda2: 1.75 GiB  linux swap
sda3: 254 GiB   home (152 GiB used)
sda4: 170 GiB   data (empty)

The final resizing took an unexpectedly short time, like 10 min or so.
This time I let GParted load its programs into RAM during boot of the live CD.

Now time to push the button for a release-upgrade, I believe...

(but first make a backup of the now compacted system partition)

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden