How to extend /home
 

I have a hard drive that is getting tight on space.

If I install a new hard drive, is there a way to extend /home onto the new drive? Or is my only option to

cp -a /home /home/on/new/drive

then make an entry in fstab to make /home/on/new/drive the new /home?

there are plenty of options, but you've not told us a single thing about how your system is currently set up. are you using lvm? do you have a seperate /home partition? if you're on lvm then you can add the additional hardware to the lvm group to get that expansion, using system-config-lvm. if you are not on lvm, then you would be looking to move wholesale to the new device with the cp commands

If seperate partition and not LVM then check this post out. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...home+partition
Several others here on the subject.

Brian1

If you are attempting to transfer the /home partition from one disk to another, the following article may be of interest: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...-partplan.html

That looks like the link I was thinking of. Looks good and easy to follow.
Brian1

last time I had to move /home I just booted with the Slack install disk and did everything from there. Piece of cake to copy everything to the new partition without worrying about any files being in use. A quick fstab edit and you're in business.