When I did my Wubi install, I found my memory space for /home wasn't sufficient.
Someone on the list pointed me to instructions on moving /home to a separate
space, which worked fine.
Is there a similar way to do this after one has done a standard install of a
Ubuntu version? I'm reading up on how to manually edit the partition table so I
can have a separate /home space, and I don't want to undertake that. I'm a
beginner and know nothing about mount points and lots of other stuff here that
looks like it might be important.
When I was in basic training, our dorm chief, who's the head trainee, was
marching us somewhere. He didn't know what he was doing, except for a 5-minute
briefing from the sergeant on how to order troops to march, which is actually
more complex than you would think. We came upon a low barrier, and he knew no
command to tell us to march over the barrier, so he stopped us and said, "'Fall
out' over here and 'fall in' over there." Easy.
So I'm thinking it would be handy to do something similar with the install. Just
use the largest contiguous space and then tell /home "Ok, 'fall out' from over
there and 'fall in' over here," and the data gets copied from one spot on the
disk to another.
I still then have to reload my old /home from my broken Wubi install, then
install a couple other Ubuntu versions.
So is there such a procedure to move /home after a standard install, and am I
crazy for attempting this?