brain-dump/atom/moving-atom-to-another-partition.md

Moving Atom to Another Partition

I moved Atom from my SSD (where the OS is installed) to a mounted partition I use for everything else.

The following will assume your new partition/drive is already mounted at startup in /etc/fstab as /storage (It can be anything, but that's the hierarchy I used.)

What this does:

• Moves everything from its native placement into a new partition/drive
• Creates a symlink, so any launchers or shortcuts will remain operative

Before beginning, exit Atom.

As Your Non-root User

Prepare the "home" directories on your second drive:

mkdir /storage/atom &&
mv ~/.atom /storage/atom/.atom &&
ln -s /storage/atom/.atom/ ~/.atom

Now the "config":

mkdir -p /storage/atom/.config &&
mv ~/.config/Atom /storage/atom/.config/Atom &&
ln -s /storage/atom/.config/Atom ~/.config/Atom

As root (or sudo user), run the following

Prepare the elevated directories:

mkdir -p /storage/atom/usr/share &&
mv /usr/share/atom /storage/atom/usr/share/atom &&
ln -s /storage/atom/usr/share/atom /usr/share/atom