Move EMMC to NVMe boot: step 10 clarification

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Okay, so, to be clear:

You cannot “move” the OS (root partition) to the NVMe drive. You can only make the NVMe drive an external storage drive. Am I understanding you correctly? If that is the case, then what processes should I follow to move large software onto the NVMe drive? Here is a thought: Can I mount the “/home/” directory on the external drive? That way, software like docker containers and git repos and dot files (like .gradle or .ssh etc.) won’t be on the main OS partition. After the OS install, there are only about 23 gigabytes left on EMMC for development and production sources.

I see that docker can be moved to an external drive here:

How to tell Docker to store and run containers on an external drive

How do I run a Docker container on a USB drive?

Change Docker root directory /var/lib/docker to another location

How do I move a docker container's image to a persistent disk?

I also see that the directories like the home directory can be moved here:

Install /usr directory to attached nvme drive

if the concern is just to have /usr folder at nvme it can be done with putting corresponding instruction into the /etc/fstab file for permanent use or it could be mounted manually with mount command for one time use On the other hand, as it has been pointed out the entire OS could be moved to nvme for fastest boot. I hope nvidia within time will incorporate the option to boot directly from nvme/ flash nvme directly with flash.sh as for now we have to use the proposed by Jim solution

Mapping the home folder to a different location in fstab

I have multiple docker containers and several aptitude packages to install for production (and development) so any methods to move data off of EMMC are greatly appreciated. Are any these methods attached supported by the Xavier AGX?