Thank you all for your replies. It’s school holidays down here and I haven’t really had a chance to look into your suggestions properly.
I shall have a bit more free time in a couple of weeks.
Cheers.
Hi oldfred, I believe what you have described is similar to what I attempted.
I have installed the OS on the SSD and left the HDD un-formated but labeled it /home.
When I look at the HDD via, “Disks”, it shows that most of the disk is full so my data is still there I just cant access it.
Hi Actionparsnip, there is already stuff on the larger drives so I prefer not to format it.
Thanks
You can mount the casual data disk as something like /data then grant access as you need
Labeling a disk /home does not make it /home and may confuse you.
You have to format it, probably ext4, mount it in fstab, and give yourself ownership & permissions. Easy to do when installing as you just specify another partition as /home. It then automatically adds to fstab with correct ownership & permissions.
You can move /home from inside / to another partition. Be sure to have good backups. Details:
To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions
Move Home
If you would like details on creating a data partition, and linking folders back into /home so while data is in different partition, it looks like it is in /home. Have not done it with snaps, so not sure if they work.
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