From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C450E1382C5 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAB87E0AAF; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail142c7.megamailservers.com (mail773.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.83]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6CEE5E0A6E for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:42:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Authenticated-User: admin@sys-concept.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=megamailservers.com; s=mailtor; t=1610314938; bh=Qzxh1Ktg6pmzFOkVEPdnM4lsPkDmELSWO6f+Q9p3gk8=; h=From:Subject:To:Date:From; b=WadvDk7NEH/kH81ojmxSU8gbUL3UtZg6LDaoIBY7N8QewwHbUem4m/+KPaSppLt1n 0XWKrYD4Zvp6yfJo6LZFVCQnwX12fW5i4khwDAJJPMRTz+h2VLB/CDlrXyNETJKkEQ 9Y+olJzitHJ1hXsvsWH82Ev6qZhmhZ6G9kW6EzzU= Feedback-ID:thelma@sys-conc X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from [10.0.0.109] 184.69.242.18":"46747 ([184.69.242.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail142c7.megamailservers.com (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id 10ALgEqI002416 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:42:17 -0500 From: thelma@sys-concept.com Subject: [gentoo-user] resizing and moving home directory to new partition on save drive To: Gentoo mailing list Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:42:09 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-CA Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A742F1F.5FFB74B9.002A:SCFSTAT54230205,ss=1,re=-4.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: -4.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.3 cv=VLWjYOHX c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=u3gW5Uk2xAGXuEgp5FffjQ==:117 a=u3gW5Uk2xAGXuEgp5FffjQ==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=jyEwUxVwAAAA:8 a=xDepBtoz8zNkNn-M8DwA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=pEy7BBIvYqu-eAYSb6N7:22 X-VADE-SPAMSTATE: clean X-VADE-SPAMSCORE: 0 X-VADE-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedujedrvdegledgudehfecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfjqffuvffqrffktedpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucenucfjughrpefhuffvkffffgggtgfgsehtjeertddtfeejnecuhfhrohhmpehthhgvlhhmrgesshihshdqtghonhgtvghpthdrtghomhenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeekieduuefhjeeflefhhfetuefggfehtdefueejieeivdegfeejjeekhfduhfefieenucffohhmrghinhephhhomhgvrdhorhhgnecukfhppedukeegrdeiledrvdegvddrudeknecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehinhgvthepudekgedrieelrddvgedvrddukedphhgvlhhopegluddtrddtrddtrddutdelngdpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehthhgvlhhmrgesshihshdqtghonhgtvghpthdrtghomhdprhgtphhtthhopehgvghnthhoohdquhhsvghrsehlihhsthhsrdhgvghnthhoohdrohhrgh X-Origin-Country: CA X-Archives-Salt: 38c13b77-21e9-4063-8cae-57ca1d920349 X-Archives-Hash: ae58024c00ceb7a453f48e08876206d2 I want to move /home directory to a new partition (save drive). I have 1-SSD drive: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% /dev/sda4 916G 405G 464G 47% / Home directory is on it taking about 360GB I was planning doing it in stages. Stage-1 Using Gparted to resize "/" portion shirk it to about 450GB create new ext4 partition for /home /dev/sda5 Boot-strap the PC with live-gentoo mv /home /home.org mkdir /home mount ext4 /dev/sda5 /home/ cp -rp /home.org/* /home/ edit fstab: /dev/sda5 /home ext4 default 0 0 reboot and test home Am I missing something? If everything works, remove /home.org Stage-2: With Gparted resize both root and home portion, giving root about 200GB and rest to /home (dev/sda5)