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
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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
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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.
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