How do i add another HDD as my Home dir.
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24 minutes ago, Jimkirk363 said:@Joe Jackman I dont quite understand what u r trying to do here but im gonna take a guess. I think what u wanna do is add extra space to your linux drive and if this is the case its not as easy as just doing that. You need to install the O/S to that drive.
No, you don't. You can add a new drive, move your files over and then mount that as your new "/home/<username>". I've done exactly that on mine. My original installation was Linux on a 75 GB partition. I later added a 1 TB SSD and I am now using that as my home directory.
See here, for example: https://www.tecmint.com/move-home-directory-to-new-partition-disk-in-linux/
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