Newer to Debian here. Still shedding the Windows habit and way of doing things.
I'm trying to format a 1TB USB HDD to use as my home folder as my 250Gb SSD is not large enough to hold all of my data.
I tried formating it with gparted and it formatted it as root. I know I can format from the terminal using the mkfs.ext4 command. My questions are:
1. How to format properly format, name and have the correct mount point for the new ext4 drive so that it becomes my default Home folder (this would be related to a mount point, correct?)
2. How do I transfer all of the hidden folders already in Home to the "new" home?
3. Is this a sane/safe things to do?
4. And would this simplify my system backup (my ultimate goal)
The output from fdisk -l is
All I ultimately want is 1 place where all my data is and the simplest way to backup my whole system as required. The backup part is discussion for another day though.Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204885504 bytes, 1953525167 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 0B194F1B-61A9-4875-A38A-7E5095968CAF
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G Microsoft basic data
Any and all help is greatly appreciated, as are opinions of experienced users.
Fozhebert