Additional HardDisk

[Bilal Dar]

Thanks ... it really helped, but for copying file system i used the following:

cd /home
pax -pe -rvw . /mnt/hd2


and after step 5 /home directory needs to be created, i was thinking that it get created automatically
mkdir /home


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: IAK Tanoli 
  To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list 
  Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 10:14 PM
  Subject: Re: Additional HardDisk


  Step 1:
  Create partitions using fdisk 
  e.g fdisk /dev/hdb (for primary slave)

  Step 2:
  Create file system using mkfs.ext3 
  e.g mkfs.ext /dev/hdb1

  Step 3:
  mount partitions 
  # mkdir /mnt/hd2
  # mkdir /mnt/hd3

  # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd2
  # mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hd3

  Step 4:
  copy dir. to that paritions
  # cp -rf /home /mnt/hd2
  # cp -rf /var /mnt/hd3

  Step 5:
  rename old directories

  # mv -f /home /homeold
  # mv -f /var /varold

  Step 6:
  Add to fstab

  # vi /etc/fstab
  /dev/hdb1    /home auto defaults 0 0
  /dev/hdb2    /var auto defaults 0 0

  Step 7:
  Reboot system and make sure that every this is ok and all data in /home and /var is there.

  Step 8:
  After surity of step 7 delete /homeold and /varold
  # rm -rf /homeold
  # rm -rf /varold


  regards






  Bilal Dar <bdar at pbad.sbg.com.sa> wrote:
    Dear All,

    My harddrive got full, so I added another one. Now I do not know how to expand the older filesystems, I just made partitions using filesystem. How can I format it using ext3 and move /home /var to the new harddisk.

    Thanks.
    -- 
    redhat-list mailing list
    unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
    https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list



  --

  ________________
  Imtiaz Ahmed Khan
  Sr. System Consultant
  ANTS Consultiing


  Org: ANTS Consulting
  URL: http://ants.com.pk/
  Eml: sendtoimtiaz at yahoo.com
  Mob: +92300-2128278 
  ___________________________________


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Do you Yahoo!?
  Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th


------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  -- 
  redhat-list mailing list
  unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/attachments/20040413/ecc8ea0d/attachment.htm>