Comment on Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder?
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
Is your /home on a separate partition? If so, no need to copy anything.
If you really need to backup, I’d get a proper external disk, or failing that, backup to backblaze (or similar) and restore later.
At a pinch, you could tar it all up and copy it to a usb stick, if you have a big enough one to habd, but it’ll be slower.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
/home is not on a separate partition, no. Yeah an external disk will probably be better
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
Next time make a partition ;)
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Indeed that seems to be a good idea. When I do reinstall to “distro-hop”, I’ll try to do that then. How big should the “system”/non-home partition be?
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours ago
How long is a piece of string?
Really depends on what you install.
‘du -hs /usr /var’ to get a rough idea.