hardisk full

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Stringer [mailto:ben at burbong.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:50 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: hardisk full
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:38, Bilal Dar wrote:
> > 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
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Shouldn't this be /home ?
> 
> > 
> > 10. Reboot
> > 
> > 11. rm -Rf /homeold
> > 

You guys should also take a look at LVM..
I hear it makes quite a difference when you're facing
something like this.

I'm on a quest to understand how to get it done.