Move Drive Containing /Home to New Computer

[Mike365]

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.

[kato181]

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

[hal8000]

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

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blkid

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
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cat /etc/fstab > filesystem-table

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.

[motoryzen]

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 system reports
2. click System information button upper left, copy button bottom right
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.

[linux-rox]

... a new computer which has an SSD that contains /root and /boot.

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?

... mounting the data drive to /Home using GParted?

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?