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  • You could change your home directory to the second hard drive but you would have to take some steps to do so, firstly the second hdd would have to be mounted and have an active /etx/fstab entry. once this is sorted out and done you can then use vipw and vipw -s to edit your users home directory, vipw is the command to edit the passwd file and vipw -s is for the shadow file. Directly editing the files can cause corruption so it's best to use these commands. Commented Jan 15, 2020 at 22:53
  • @Qasim I have edited the fstab file and i believe its all working. Will editing the uder home dir with vipw just create a new /home or copy the existing files? Will there be problems with programs trying to acces the old /home? Commented Jan 15, 2020 at 22:58
  • Whever you start a program, they go to the passwd and shadow files to get user details such as gid, uid and home directory etc. so it wont be a problem. Also sid you use my answer or did you think of doing this before I commented? Just asking because then I can write an actual answer. Commented Jan 16, 2020 at 6:57
  • Nope didnt know this command. Please do write an answer. Sorry for the late response, it was kind of a weird time here. Commented Jan 16, 2020 at 7:29