hardisk full

[Bilal Dar]

There was typo in the pervious mail ingore that one.

 Thanks for all your help guyz, i followed the following steps, it might
help
 some else as well.

 1. fdisk /dev/hdb (make partitions)
    /dev/hdb1 (new partition)

 2. mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1

 3. mkdir /mnt/homenew

 4. mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/homenew

 5. cd /home

 6. pax -pe -rvw . /mnt/homenew

 7. mv -f /home /homeold

 8. mkdir /home

9. add to fstab
     /dev/hdb1 /mnt/homenew ext3 defaults 0 0

 10. Reboot

11. rm -rf /homeold

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laurence Orchard" <laurence at orchards.org.uk>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: hardisk full
>
>
> > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 06:12, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > Bilal Dar wrote:
> > >
> > > >Well thanks but i am not even at this step now, my new device is
> /dev/hdb. I made two partitions /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2. Now what should
be
> my next step. I dont know what to do next.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks
> > > >  ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > >  From: Gertjan Vinkesteijn
> > > >  To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > > >  Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:10 PM
> > > >  Subject: Re: hardisk full
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  Bilal Dar wrote:
> > > >    Dear all,
> > > >
> > > >    I am having this problem, my harddrive got full so i added
another
> one to my machine. Now i don't know how to move my /home /var to the new
> drive. Can someone guide me, i just made the partitions using fdisk.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Follow these steps and it should work very well.  If nervous about
> > > following these steps, follow the steps for /home first and after it
> > > works and you are comfortable then repeat the steps to do /var.
> > > Use tar because it easily maintains ownership and permissions whereas
cp
> > > requires special flags to do that.
> > > This all must be done as root.
> > >
> > > 1.  create 2 mount points in /mnt.
> > >         call them /mnt/home and /mnt/var
> > >
> > > 2. mount the appropriate partition on each.
> > >         mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/home   etc.
> > >
> > > 3. create tar files (This assumes you have at least twice the
currently
> > > used space in each of the new partitons.  If not, choose a different
> > > location where space is available to create the tar files, or do just
> > > one filesystem at a time and use the other partition as the location
to
> > > create that file.)
> > >         #  tar cvf /mnt/home/home.tar /home
> > >         #  tar cvf /mnt/var/var.tar  /var
> > >
> > > 4. Now extract the tarball to the new partitions
> > >         #  cd /mnt
> > >         #  tar xvf home/home.tar
> > >         #  tar xvf var/var.tar
> > > 5.  do a quick verification of the completeness of both new sets of
> > > files extracted.
> > >     A quick way to check it is close is
> > >         du -s /var
> > >         du -s /mnt/var
> > >     The numbers should be very close if not exact.
> > >
> > > 6. (this one can be done now or later)
> > >         If step 5 appears good then do # rm /mnt/home.tar
> /mnt/var/var.tar
> > >
> > > 7. Now comes the hard (easy??) part -- actually putting the new
> > > filesystems on the mount point.
> > >     a.    Edit /etc/fstab to make sure the new partitons will be
mounted
> > > on /home and /var
> > >     eg.    /dev/hdb1     /home   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > >             /dev/hdb2     /var       ext3    defaults        1 2
> > >     b.   You must remove the old contents of /home and /var _before_
you
> > > mount the new partions at that point so you have that space available.
> > > (If you do not, the space will not be available and the clearing
cannot
> > > be done with the filesystem mounted at that point)
> > >         (carefull on the spelling with this one)
> > >         #  rm -rf /home/*
> > > then
> > >         #  rm -rf /var/*
> > >     c:    Reboot
> > >
> > > If you have carefully followed all the steps above, now reboot and
> > > everything will be on the new filesystems and space previously used
will
> > > be free.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > Hope I'm not being obvious here or have missed something!!
> >
> > What happens about the mkfs?
> >
> > Surely he has to make the file systems on the partitions BEFORE he can
> > copy on to them or mount them.
> >
> > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 -c -c
> >
> > takes a while with the 2 -c, but it will do a complete surface check,
> > miss it if you are sure the disk is ok
> >
> > Laurence
> >
> >
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