Here's what I would do: format the new drive (ext2/3, whatever), and put it in your server. Mount it as /home2 or something like that. copy all of the files off the current /home onto the new drive. then, unmount /home and mount the new drive as /home. make sure to update /etc/fstab.
hope that helps. On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Chris Wallace wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 >Hey all, >Looking to avoid nasty surprises here: >My existing /home is actually on a separate physical hdd than / and I would >like to simply xfer the contents to a new 120GB hdd that I just picked up the >other day. >Now, in the 'legacy' world I came from, I would just clone the /home partition >to the 'new', formatted hdd and that would be (close) to the end of that. >This will be the first such time that I have undertaken such an endeavour in >linux and googling hasn't netted me much info thus far (apart from >proprietary imaging software). >Any tips/tricks?? >Thanks, >Chris >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) >iD8DBQE/Mc5hAvR8j4tXQKERAsMjAJ9imn44AGWRmFb9dJkFrOccWgqG4gCeP7TT >M8AMTbglPwG+jq94t1/lkFE= >=xA4U >-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
