[LUG] Separate Home Partition

[Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A little while ago I bought a new laptop. It was my first time with uefi 
and I had a few problems because it came with secure boot enabled and 
Win 8 (trial version only) installed. I had to call the help line to get 
that sorted. With all that going on I forgot to set up a separate 
partition for home.

Now I am wondering if there is a way to change the partitioning so that 
I can have home separate while keeping the data intact. I have done some 
research. Plenty of advice about using gparted when installing a new 
distro but I cannot find anything about moving home intact to its own 
separate partition. Perhaps it can't be done?

The idea is that, when I move to a newer version of my distro, I can 
just install the root files but keep my home files untouched. Is that 
feasible please?

Or am I being over optimistic? If so I will remember to get it right 
next time!

Thanks

Neil

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