how do you put your /home folder on another drive on btrfs? | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

little remnant Dec 28, 2024, 2:08 AM

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title says all. I tried following Distrotube's video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEnnEhziLn8&t=3s ) but it seems you can't mount an ext4 drive on a brrfs system like that, and try as i might i can't find any more information on the topic, help?

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Move Your Home Directory To A Second Drive

Do you have more than one drive in your computer? Then you may want to move your /home directory (or other directories) to their own drive. It certainly makes reinstalling much faster when you don't have to backup all of that data and then move it back onto the machine after the reinstall.

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spare mortar Dec 28, 2024, 2:09 AM

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what are you asking?

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yes you can mount stuff at mountpoints in linux

torpid summit Dec 28, 2024, 2:13 AM

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you get to use a btrfs subvolume, a partition of your favorite filesystem, another drive entirely

little remnant Dec 28, 2024, 2:13 AM

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I'm really not good at phrasing things sorry-
I'm on an arch install with btrfs as a file system, but when i try to mount my home folder on my other drive and take out my original home directory, my system just dies completely

torpid summit Dec 28, 2024, 2:14 AM

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dies how?

#how do you put your /home folder on another drive on btrfs?