hi siva,
first partition it in 2gb segments, then checkout the /dev entry for those.
Then make a directories at ur /home, /usr, ... and mount that newly made
partition to that directory.
Otherwise u allocate ur /home in the newly pationed hard disk. Then, ur
exsisting partition will have enough free disk space in the old HDD.
U can do it in the following way:
first make a 4GB partition at ur new HDD
do mkfs.ext2 on that partition
then mount it in some temporary mount point
then transfer all of ur stuff at /home directory to that mounted partition
then rename the /home directory to /home.bak (just if anything goes
wrong)
then add the entry in the /etc/fstab as below
/dev/hdb1 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
then reboot ur m/c
if everything is perfect, then remove /home.bak directory
BEFORE DOING ALL THE STUFF PLEASE TAKE A BACKUP OF UR DATA
Archan Paul
Lateral linux Labs
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> hi,
>
>
> I had installed linux in hard disk of 4GB.
> I had allocated 1GB for /home, 1GB for /usr,
> 1GB for /var, and remaining for other partions.
>
> Now i have another hard disk of 8GB and i would
> like to increase the size of /home, /usr and /var to 2GB each.
> How do i do it.
>
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