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At that point you should have selected the other partition. It would then ask where you wanted to mount it.

Is sda3 formatted? If it already is, you can still move your home into it and start using it. If it is not, you can use mkfs.xfs on it to format it:

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sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sda3

First edit your fstab and add the following line to it:

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/dev/sda3        /home            xfs         defaults         1   2

(assuming it's xfs formatted).

Then go into init 3, it's safer that way:

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sudo init 3

log in and become root:

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sudo su

make a temporary directory, mount sda3 to it and move everything in /home to it:

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mkdir /temp-home
mount /dev/sda3 /temp-home
mv /home/* /temp-home

Unmount and remove the temporary directory:

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umount /temp-home
rmdir /temp-home

You can mount the new partition now and your home should be in sda3:

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mount /dev/sda3

or you can reboot and have the same effect.

Awesome! Thank you very much.

I feel like I’m going to learn a lot of things, here. It’s like rediscovering Linux.

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