Re: I screwed up!

[Johnny <rh net55 com>]

Thank you Paul;

I followed your instructions with great success. 

The only thing I did differently was to set the 
new drive to 'not mount at boot' so if it was 
screwed up I could still log in.  

It worked fine so I set it to mount at boot and all is well 
in the kingdom.

Many thanks

johnny


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...
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> Paul Schroeder  <paulsch us ibm com>
> Software Engineer, IBM Corporation
> Office: 512-838-9675  Lab: 512-838-1022
> 
> Johnny <rh net55 com> on 10/03/99 05:34:37 AM
> 
> Please respond to redhat-install-list redhat com
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> Subject:  I screwed up!
> 
> I didn't leave enough space for '/home'
> and to fix it
> I have decided to add a separate hard drive and to
> mount it as '/home'.
> 
> As I've never hoved '/home' before I was wondering
> if someone could guid me through how to do this?
> 
> Especially the commands necessary to copy all of the
> directories in '/home' to the new hard drive.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> johnny
> 
> PS.. I was going to send this request to the main
> redhat-list... but for some reason I am no longer
> receiving mail from it... and am having no luck re-subscribing.
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