Post #3587776

2026-07-04 19:03 UTC

Well, moving partitions is at least a bit tricky and somewhat unreliable. So, unless you do a full repartitioning you will have sda1 with 520GB(ish). Current /home partition you can extend to fill the ~550MB from end of the drive. Then it’s up to you what you want to do with that 520GB. One option would be to build LVM (or zfs if you wish, LVM likely makes more sense on your case) setup from that and current /home partition and that way you could have ~850GB logical partition for home. Or you can just format the new sda1 as ext4 and mount it to /home/youruser/Media or whatever and have your home directory data split to two different partitions. But whatever you decide, when messing around with partitions make absolutely sure that your backups are in good shape. One small error somewhere and your data might be gone, or at very least you need to learn how to rebuild partition tables. Also when changing partitions check that your fstab uses UUIDs instead of device paths or your system may not boot cleanly. Broken fstab is fairly simple to fix, but it’s easier to check that while the system is up and running.

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@Stopwatch1986@lemmy.ml 2026-07-04 20:39

I’d rather have a single large /home partition, and the LVM method sounds less risky if I find out how to do it safely. I am sure I read somewhere that LVM is the clean way to manage partitions. I see my fstab says the following, so it’s UUIDs although I am not sure about that /swapfile: # / was on /dev/sda6 during installation UUID=9178d5fa-87a7-4e65-ba88-726f41c84186 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot/efi was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=0B9E-D68E /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 # /home was on /dev/sda8 during installation UUID=0a3aa38a-1673-4064-b573-9a090be7f3cb /home ext4 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation # UUID=ca915564-2474-4399-ae6c-b4d9b73e69d1 none swap sw 0 0 # # added swapfile /swapfile none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/myuser/backintime ext4 nofail 0 0

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