how do i shift /home to another partition

[rockager]

is there a way to move /home to a seperate partition?
also, i would like to know if the /home partition can be fat32 or ntfs.

[devils casper]

It's not a good idea to use FAT32 or NTFS filesystem for /home partition. If you are planning to share data between Windows OS and Linux, then create a separate NTFS partition for data sharing instead of using it as /home.

Regarding new /home partition, follow these steps :

* Create a new partition for /home.
* Copy all the contents of /home to the new partition.

find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd  <new_home_partition>

* Edit /etc/fstab file and add a new entry for /home.

/dev/<partition>   /home     <filesystem>  defaults  0  0

* Reboot machine and if everything works fine on reboot, disable new /home partition ( edit /etc/fstab and out # sign before line for /home ). Reboot machine and delete all the contents of /home folder. You don't want to keep a copy of /home hidden inside of /.

* Edit /etc/fstab file again to use new /home.