I have a computer with a separate drive containing the Home partition. I would like to transfer this drive to a new computer which has an SSD that contains /root and /boot.
Is it just a case of connecting the Home drive and booting with a live USB, and mounting the data drive to /Home using GParted?
There is plenty of information about transferring the Home folder to another drive but not a lot about relocating the drive.
Move Drive Containing /Home to New Computer
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Move Drive Containing /Home to New Computer
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Re: Move Drive Containing /Home to New Computer
You have told nothing about the system you are using. In terminal copy & paste the following command and post the results back here in between the code display brackets 5th icon above the text box.
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inxi -Fxz
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sudo lsblk
Re: Move Drive Containing /Home to New Computer
Without the extra information its not possible to answer.
However you also need to know to UUID identify of the current home partition.
This can be found from command
The new drive that contains / the filesystem table will need to be modified with the mount details for home.
From your existing linux system you need to backup the fstab
Using command
The above command run as normal user will create a text file called filesystem-table in your
current home directory (or wherever its run from) with your current home partition UUID and mount options.
However you also need to know to UUID identify of the current home partition.
This can be found from command
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blkid
From your existing linux system you need to backup the fstab
Using command
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cat /etc/fstab > filesystem-table
current home directory (or wherever its run from) with your current home partition UUID and mount options.
Re: Move Drive Containing /Home to New Computer
mike365, no offense, but kato's point still must be answered
See that pink section above that is virtually impossible to miss? Where it talks about how to get help That's a link...click it. step 5 is pretty much what kato asked you to do earlier.... .
...Or if you prefer the gui method which many beginners understandably would...
1. start button aka windows logo button on your keyboard. without quotes type
2. click
3. Come back here, paste into the white area where you reply.
This will show us how Linux Mint deals with your hardware, but won't give any personally identifiable info.
This site's/domain's management put that there to save everyone on time wasting speculation.
See that pink section above that is virtually impossible to miss? Where it talks about how to get help That's a link...click it. step 5 is pretty much what kato asked you to do earlier.... .
...Or if you prefer the gui method which many beginners understandably would...
1. start button aka windows logo button on your keyboard. without quotes type
system reports
2. click
System information
button upper left, copy
button bottom right3. Come back here, paste into the white area where you reply.
This will show us how Linux Mint deals with your hardware, but won't give any personally identifiable info.
This site's/domain's management put that there to save everyone on time wasting speculation.
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asrock x570 taichi ...bios p5.00
ryzen 5900x
128GB Kingston Fury @ 3600mhz
Corsair mp600 pro xt NVME ssd 4TB
three 4TB ssds
dual 1TB ssds
Two 16TB Toshiba hdd's
24GB amd 7900xtx vid card
Viewsonic Elite UHD 32" 144hz monitor
Re: Move Drive Containing /Home to New Computer
FYI, /root is not the system partition; it's the home folder of user-root. Also, why a /boot partition? Is your system encrypted? Is the new computer running the same version of Mint as the old one? Is your username the same?
GParted has no such functionality. Can be done with Disks, but not what I would recommend. To do this correctly, you're going to want to edit fstab manually. What's your experience level with editing config files?... mounting the data drive to /Home using GParted?