You might also want to check out RAID 0 .. it will treat the two HD as
on HD. =)
jack
neuroticimbecile wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, you wrote:
>
>> Help !, I need your advice, I have a filesystem /home that has 2GB and I want to
>add another 4GB to the filesystem using another harddrive without erasing the data of
>the filesystem. What steps and software do I need?
>>
>> TIA
>
>
> if you want to _add_ the 4gb and not replace the old 2gb,
> you may try the ff (that is, if you don't have a LVM yet):
>
> 1. just install the new 4gb hd
> 2. format it with mkfs /dev/hdx
> 3. edit your /etc/fstab and place it there as /home2
> 4. edit your /etc/default/useradd to place new users' homedirs under /home2
> 5. no need to transfer from /home to /home2
> /home will still hold homedirs of old users
> while /home2 will hold homedirs of new users
>
> hth,
> -eric
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