[GRLUG] mounting stuff

[Greg Folkert]

On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 18:49 -0500, Topher wrote:
> I have a 1tb drive that I've been dual booting for years now.
> 
> Today I put in an SSD and put Arch on it.  I used os-prober to help GRUB
> find my windows partition on the other drive, which it did just fine, so
> I'm dual again.
> 
> I want to use my Linux partition on the 1tb drive as /home on the new
> filesystem.  Can I just that up in fstab and have it magically work?
> 
> So that when I add a new user it makes that user's dir on the platter drive?
> 
> Related, for now, how would I edit GRUB so that I could boot Linux from
> the ssd OR the platter drive?  My grub editing skilz are sad.  :(

Do you have all the stuff off the 1TB drive partitions that are Linux
dedicated?

If so... remove all the "Linux" partitions off the drive and
reallocate/create a new one dedicated for /home

After that, yes you can use a separate drive partition for home.


IF you are not going to reformat the drive... if your previous "homedir"
was on your "root" partition and you are not going to re-allocated it is
more difficult, but not out of the question, but it would be more
non-standard.
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