Re: I screwed up!

[Chris Watt <cnww hfx andara com>]

At 01:02 PM 10/3/99 -0400, paulsch us ibm com wrote:

>Once you've got the new drive in, first thing you'll need to do is run 'fdisk
>/dev/hdb' (assuming your new drive is the second drive in the system) and add
>your partition(s)..
>Run 'mke2fs /dev/hdb1' (assuming that's where you want your new home
>partition)..
>Mount your new partition 'mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt'...
>Copy your data with 'cp -a /home/* /mnt'...
>Edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new location of /home...
>Reboot and all should be well...

This is generally good, but if you're short on space on your root partition
then once this is completed you should reboot in single user mode (enter
"linux single" at the "boot:" prompt) unmount your new /home partition if
it mounts automatically and then delete the contents of /home on your root
drive. Otherwise it will just sit their taking up space forever.
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