I have a laptop that only has a 32gb ssd. I have a 128gb microsd installed for extra storage. I'd like to have my os installed on the ssd, but my home folder and personal files stored on the microsd card. How do I go about doing so? Thanks!
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I recently did this with a symbolic link. I didnt get rid of my ~/ or Home folder but rather mapped paths on a micro-sd card under ~/.
Here's an answer that explains it
In my case I had an micro-sd called "Extra", with a folder called "Repositories". So my command was
ln -s /media/{myprofilename}/Extra/Repositories ~/
Now I can access that folder from ~/Repositories as if it were in the HOME folder.
If you're going to user the terminal a lot, I would also set this up for bash aliases as well so if your OS gets wiped away, you can just re-apply your links and life goes on.
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Yeah, this is a neat setup, but completely useless. I was wanting the home folder moved so I could take advantage of the extra space I had available for both file storage and freeing up space on the system partition. So just having a folder redirect me to another folder or essentially being the same folder doesn't help with this particular issue. Thanks for the info though, I appreciate it. Commented Jul 3, 2019 at 3:40
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