Re: [PLUG] Adding a new HD

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

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On Aug 31, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Art Alexion wrote:
> I am adding a new (additional) hard drive.  My current HD has a simple 
> ext3 partitioning: (/, /boot, & /swap).  I want to move /home to the 
> new drive as well as installing a new distro.
>
> Can I just do a
>
>    mkdir /newhome
>
> on the new HD, and then
>
>    mv /home /newhome
>    mv /newhome/home /home
>
> That doesn't seem right.

Yeah, its not. You have to bind /home to the partition on the new HD. 
This is done by editing /etc/fstab.

What I would do is add this line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/<whatever>	/newhome	ext3	rw	0	2

Where <whatever> is the particular device file for the partition you 
want on the new HD. Then:

# mount /newhome
# cp -R /home /newhome
# rm -rf /home/*
# umount /newhome

Now change the mount point for that partition on the new HD in 
/etc/fstab to /home and mount /home.

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Tobias DiPasquale
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