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How to add unused partition of the first disk to /home in the second disk

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I have two ssd disks, Disk B is devoted to /home, and disk A is the filesystem and is 90% empty.

So I made on disk A a partition /dev/sda3 with 80% of the free space. Now I am wondering what is the best way to somehow add the newly created partition to my /home which is located at /dev/sdb1?

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answered 1 Year ago kilusy · Accepted Answer

Add a line in /etc/fstab for that disk and it will be mounted automatically i.e.

/dev/sdXY /mnt/data   ext4 noatime,noexec

You can mount it somewhere else and create a soft link to a folder under your home with big files (say downloads or something) and spread the files between the two

ln -s /mnt/data /home/alifish/downloads

with

df /home/alifish/downloads

you should see the true location of the directory