On Sun, 24 Jul 2022, Mark Phillips wrote:
My apologies for not being clear. What you describe is exactly what I have and want to accomplish. * 1 TB drive just for OS - currently a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 with nothing in /home/mark * 4TB drive holds the back up of home/mark - i.e. all "my stuff" (about 2.1 TB). I want to just keep adding to this backup of my old /home/mark directory.
Mark, You have room on the 4TB drive. I suggest you make a partion on it called, for example, /media/old4t. (And mount that in /etc/fstab.) Then 'cp -R ...' 2.1TB contents to /media/old4t. After it compies with no errors, delete the contents of the orginal 4TB drive, leaving everything in /media/old4t. Now you have about 1.9TB free on that drive, set up directories such as /home, /deveopment, /documents, /video, and whatever you need. Then move from /media/old4t all the files into your new directory structure. When that's done and confirmed good, delete /media/old4t and you now have room for all your non-OS stuff on the 4TB drive with plenty of space to add new files. HTH, Rich
