Re: [PLUG] Adding a new HD

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:53:00PM -0400, 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.

because it's not :)

you need to mount the partition on /home.  assuming you have the
filesystem setup (i'll assume "hdb1") and already mounted on /newhome:

rsync -a /home/ /newhome
umount /newhome
mv /home /home.old
mkdir /home
mount /dev/hdb1 /home

(and of course /etc/fstab for preserving this across reboot)



	sean

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