Peter. This the short version... Contact me if you need more specific instructions
Once you have the drive installed. use "gparted" - this is a GUI tool that will partition and format the new disk The mount it in a convenient location (say /mnt) Copy your existing /home to /mnt - takeing care to preserve permissions and ownership umount /mnt, mount your drive as /home - this will replace the directory /home with the content of the drive (however the original data in /home will still be preserved, just not accessible while the drive is mounted) test.. test.. test.. if all goes well, unmount /home, double check it is unmounted ... and check again delete the origional /home contents mount the drive as /home (again) edit /etc/fstab to make the change persistant across reboot and have /home mounted automatically on reboot Cheers ---------------------------------------------------------- Chris Martin m: 0419812371 ---------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Peter Goggin <[email protected]>wrote: > It is many years since I have needed to get down to the nitty gritty of > systems and hardware. > > I have a single disk ububtu system and I want to add another disk to the > system and would preferably prefer to have it appeat as part of the Home > area. > > Can this be done and if so how? > > Any advice will be gratefully received. > > Regards > > > Peter Goggin > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >
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