Install programs to external drive

asked 2018-10-02 17:44:11 -0600

victoroa
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I have a Fedora 28 intallation on my laptop which has limited storage (less than 22GB). How may I install new programs to an external partition on a usb flash drive without creating a live usb?

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Do you want to install all programs to an external drive or just a few? If the answer is all, @ed209's answer may work. If just a few, you may instead put /opt on an external partition.

genodeftest ( 2018-10-03 15:54:40 -0600 )edit

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answered 2018-10-02 19:10:53 -0600

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Mostly of the Fedora installation resides in /usr . /var comes second in occupation.
You could format your external device as ext4, copy as root everything that resides in /usr there and then mount it as /usr (and perhaps /var as well, if using two partitions). You should change your fstab accordingly in order to mount your new /usr partition at every reboot.

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This is quite error-prone because you must make sure to keep all permissions, e.g. file owner, file access permissions and SELinux labels. I recommend not doing this.

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