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:
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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
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