Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Move Your Home Directory To A Second Drive" video.

  1. For some years now it has been my practice to have the OS install in its own partition, even with only one drive. Allocate one partition of, say, 50GB for the OS, and a second one of the same size, initially left unused. All the rest is for /home. On today’s multi-terabyte drives, this is no big deal. What’s the second OS-sized partition for, you may ask? That’s if you want to try out another distro without wiping out your original OS install. You can point its /home directory at the same one used by the first install, and have all your user files immediately available under the new OS without having to copy them back and forth.
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  2. Because rsync is a much more robust tool that can resume interrupted copy operations, and can be used to verify the copy after it completes. Also it works very efficiently over a network.
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  3. I currently have files spread across 3 drives on my main machine. I used to use symlinks to tie it altogether, but this got a little bit irritating when moving around the directory tree caused relative links to misbehave. So lately I have decided to try bind mounts instead.
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