This requires you to be able to ssh into the instance using the root user account and that no services be running as users out of /home on the target machine. You can check this by command fuser /home
The examples are from a default installation with no customation-you NEED to know what you're working with for volumes/partitions to not horribly break things. Use this at your own risk. *** AT YOUR OWN RISK ***. Im only tested this on Centos 8 of mine.
By default, CentOS 8 uses XFS for the file system and Logical Volume Manager (LVM), creating 3 partitions: /,/home and /boot. Check with df -h and du -h of /home to make sure the space is enough.
To backup the contents of /home, do the following: