Re: I screwed up!

[Johnny <rh net55 com>]

Thanks Chris

Good advice

The whole process worked fine.

johnny


Chris Watt wrote:
> 
> 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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