[SOLVED] how to move my home folder to another disk

[sandy8925]

Currently I have Ubuntu installed on a 4.7 GB partition and I have only about 400 MB left.

I installed another hard disk and formatted it to create a 25 GB ext3 partition.

My question is this:

I want my Ubuntu installation to use the 25 GB partition for installing apps and storing other data.How do I do this ?
Any help would be appreciated

[kaibob]

The following guide explains how to have your home directory on a different partition:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

Applications have to go on the partition with the Ubuntu file system.

[dcstar]

Currently I have Ubuntu installed on a 4.7 GB partition and I have only about 400 MB left.
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Apart from the excellent advice to have a separate /home partition, clean out your downloaded packages cache (via Synaptic) and you should get a fair amount of disk space back.

[mir123]

If you don't want to lose the modification time for your files, add

--preserve-modification-time

to your cpio command:

find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse --preserve-modification-time -pvd /new/