How to mount part of a drive to the /home mount point?

Question

linux

I need to mount a 200gb disk with /home. How can I do this without reinstalling the system?

Answer 1

you prescribe /etc/fstab section /dev/nvme0n1p5 to mount it in some directory, for example /media/new_home
mount it.
then you copy all files from /home (it is better to use rsync) to /media/new_home,
then to /etc/fstab you overwrite the mount point /dev/nvme0n1p5 from media/new_home to /home
, save /etc/fstab and reboot.
After rebooting, you check the correctness of the mounting and operation of the system.
if everything is ok, then reboot into the recovery, unmount / home and clean / home on the root partition (otherwise your old hamster tiak will hang like a dead weight in the root fs).

Answer 2

man mount
If permanent, thenman fstab