Screenshot of my partitions. Partition 1 if EFI, Partition 2 is Mint Boot sector I believe. Partition 3 is everything else.

I’m looking to give OpenSUSE TW and Fedora a try specifically. HD is encrypted from install, and I didn’t know to put /home on its own partition.

Plenty of storage space to play with. How should I approach hopping with the least amount of pain and cleanup when I finally figure out where I want to land?

  • brian@programming.dev
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    13 days ago

    depending on how much free space you have on your drive and the size of your home folder, the easiest way would just be to

    1. boot into some live image with gparted (basically any live image)
    2. use gparted to resize your root and add a new partition for /home
    3. copy the whole /home folder contents over to the new partition
    4. if you want your existing install to work: edit your fstab to mount the new partition as /home. the arch wiki should have good instructions for this, doesn’t matter if you aren’t using arch