On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, lnxqrs wrote:
> Hi All,
> i'm currently running linux on a p2 machine having HDD capacity of 4 gb. Now i have
>purchased a new HDD of 10gb. how do i configure linux to access this new HDD and how
>do i extend my current /home partition without loosing the data. I have a separate
>mount point created for /home in my current installation.
>
First use mk2fs to create the ext2 partition on your new hard disk, mount
it as say /home2. Now you can check if everything is ok by unmounting
your origibal home and remounting the /home2 as /home. If things are OK
then you can free up your original space.
I guess you can even have 2 seperate mount points like /home and /home2
and create home directories for users in either of them.
The other way is to create a soft link in any subdirectory of your
original /home and point it to your new partition.
I believe there is a howto on this at www.linuxdoc.org, do check up.
-- sreangsu
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