If /home is just a folder under / and you have a reason to put this on it’s own partition the process isn’t that difficult. Here is the steps I followed to do this.

First, create the new partition on the drive. I was using LVM, so I created a new logical volume, do whatever makes sense for your system here.

Make a place for the new home partition to be mounted while we transfer files.

mkdir /mnt/newhome
mount -t   /mnt/newhome

Move files from current /home to this new location.

cd /home
cp -ax * /mnt/newhome

Once all the files have copied, remove the old home directory, and mount the new partition in its place.

rm -r /home
mount  -t   /home

Edit /etc/fstab for the new partition, and you’re done.

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