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[Chris Green]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 04:33:17PM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:10:45 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >OTOH it would be a good chance to _move_ /home to another place... :shrug:
> 
> Interesting issue, I always thought that home wopuld need to be in /home, which
> to me infers below /...
> Could it in fact be in a completely different partition of the disk (or on
> another drive altogether) and still be located at /home?
> 
Yes, of course it could.

> If so how is that accomplished?
> 
You specify the mount point of the partition that is to be your home
directory as /home in /etc/fstab.

E.g. on my desktop machine I have (among other things):-


UUID=2d6ff70c-1894-4afa-a35c-5abb40549d3b       /       ext4 errors=remount-ro 0       1
UUID=7e8a314e-7eea-4f43-b8ed-9db025e41cbf       /home   ext4 relatime        0       2

As you say it can make upgrades easier as you can just keep your /home
unchanged while the OS gets updated.

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Chris Green