On Saturday 05 Oct 2002 10:28 am, Ashok Iyer wrote:
>: Hi all,
>:
>: I have a Red Hat Linux 7.3 machine working as a file
>: server with 36GB allocated for /home. I want to make
>: /home 72GB by adding another disk.
>:
>: Can you suggest how this can be accomplished
>: non-destructively
hi Ashok
i am suggesting you the way
but *** I do not take any responsiblity of the out come of the
following thing ***
u should have same fs type as ur privous /home has it
on the new hdd
so backup ur data first
you can do it non distructively as follows
CASE1:
#--------------------------------
In case the "/home" is **NOT** on separate partition
1. boot as linux single and then change /home to /home-old
by mv /home /home-old
2. then change /etc/fstab entry to new partion and called it as /home
e.g. ur new hdd is as /dev/hdb1 => 36 gb of linux fs [ext2fs]
then entry will be as
/dev/hdb1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
CASE2:
#--------------------------------
In case the "/home" is On separate partition
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1. boot as linux single and then change
/etc/fstab entry to new partion and called it as /home
e.g. ur new hdd is as /dev/hdb1 => 36 gb of linux fs [ext2fs]
then entry will be as
/dev/hdb1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
and now reboot ur system and that's it!
as well as destructively. I dont
>: mind moving the existing data out of /home,
>: repartitioning it and then moving the data back.
>: I am using SCSI disks.
above method may be wrong so u should check it
before trying . i do not claim any responsiblities if any thing goes wrong
with ur system
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