How can I create a new /home partition? (Disaster?)
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:54 pm
On my laptop I recently replaced my HDD with an SSD. Not being familiar with gparted, made a clean Mint 19.1 install using the 'Erase disk and install Linux Mint' option.
The process was seamless, everything works.
Using pbear's tutorial, Full Install to USB Drive: Four Options.
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=287353, installed Mint 19.1 on an external SSD using the Hybrid option. Didn't make a /home partition. Had some problems with gparted but the external SSD is up and running. Almost as fast boot as my internal SSD.
After reading forum topics on partitioning, might have made an error not setting up a separate /home partition.
Now that I'm little more familiar with gparted, some questions:
Is it possible on the same drive to:
Resize the "/" partition?
Create a new partition "/home" and move my home folder/directory into it?
If it is possible, I could use some guidance.
Found viewtopic.php?f=50&t=291743. It tells how to move "/home" to a different drive. It doesn't really apply to my situation.
Laptop partitions are:
External SSD partitions are:
I'm using the external SSD as a test bed. If it borks, no harm, just reinstall using 'Something else' option.
Thank you!
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The process was seamless, everything works.
Using pbear's tutorial, Full Install to USB Drive: Four Options.
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=287353, installed Mint 19.1 on an external SSD using the Hybrid option. Didn't make a /home partition. Had some problems with gparted but the external SSD is up and running. Almost as fast boot as my internal SSD.
After reading forum topics on partitioning, might have made an error not setting up a separate /home partition.
Now that I'm little more familiar with gparted, some questions:
Is it possible on the same drive to:
Resize the "/" partition?
Create a new partition "/home" and move my home folder/directory into it?
If it is possible, I could use some guidance.
Found viewtopic.php?f=50&t=291743. It tells how to move "/home" to a different drive. It doesn't really apply to my situation.
Laptop partitions are:
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Model: ATA WDC WDS100T2B0A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp
2 538MB 1000GB 1000GB ext4 boot, esp
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Model: Samsung Portable SSD T5
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 3146kB 2097kB bios_grub
2 3146kB 213MB 210MB fat32 msftdata
3 213MB 500GB 500GB ext4 Linux Mint
Thank you!
Edited my original subject line.