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Could someone please link me to a guide for how to install a distro with the home folder in a different location? (hexbear.net)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/libre@hexbear.net
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I have always kept my personal files on a separate drive, and then deleted the folders in ~/ (such as Documents, Downloads) and replaced them with links to their respective counterparts in my media drive. But this has not been robust -- Firefox often recreates ~/Downloads, and other small problems. I recently saw a comment here about having a partition just for the home folder, and was interested.

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This requires creating a separate home partition when partitioning the disk and mounting at /home. If you want to move the user's current home directory within the root filesystem, you can use this command while logged in as root/another user (don't do this if you're logged in as the user you're moving).

# usermod --move-home --home /newhome/username username

Some distributions (like debian) offer to do this for you automatically at install.

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