Monterey (APFS): How move home folder to separate "volume"?

[pullman]

Greetings and salutations

I'd like to move the home folder on my 2015 MBA 11" (Monterey) but I'm not sure how this works with APFS.

The reason I'd like to do this is that I normally SuperDuper the startup drives of my Macs without the user folder and data so that I can easily restore them if necessary. This MBA is not my main computer so I don't need to have all the stuff in the user folder backed up. The startup drive is currently 190GB which is too big to keep copies of.

I know how to move the user folder in Users & Groups, but I'm unsure how to create the new "space" in Disk Utility since the SSD is using APFS.

Should I create a new Volume or should I partition? And where on the SSD should I place the new "space"?

Thank you in advance
Philip

 

[Fishrrman]

I would strongly advise AGAINST attempting this.
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[pullman]

I would strongly advise AGAINST attempting this.
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Thanks for the reply. Can you elaborate please?

 

[wdhpgx]

Last time I was googling about this (dec 2021 or so), the upshot that I got was that the more recent versions of macos make it very difficult to move the home folder to another drive.

 

[Brian33]

The reason I'd like to do this is that I normally SuperDuper the startup drives of my Macs without the user folder and data so that I can easily restore them if necessary. This MBA is not my main computer so I don't need to have all the stuff in the user folder backed up. The startup drive is currently 190GB which is too big to keep copies of.

Surely SuperDuper has the ability to exclude particular folders from a backup? CCC and Time Machine certainly do and I'd expect it of any backup program. You should be able to just exclude your home folder, and then your backups will be smaller.

 

[saudor]

yeah dont do this as there is no benefit and just adds complexity and chances of something screwing up. You're better off just backing up the user data/files as the system can be easily restored by reinstalling macOS. It's not like Windows where the system folders get clogged up with user data.