Add new hardrive /home and /var

Hi guys
My situation like this. Add another 4.3 G for /home and /var
3.0 G for /home and 1.3 /var
first of all, I just make partition by using cfdisk partition 3.0 for my new hard drive and 1.3G for /var.
1. mount /dev/hdd1/ /export/newhome
2. cd /export/newhome/home--->it does point back to my /home(orginal home) and listed all the user direcotries.
What is next? I am not sure. Do I need to delete /export/newhome
and edit my fstab to make sure it will link to my new hard drive? And how to edit fstab (RH 7.2) Thank you.

Guanyu

well, i'd recommend mounting the new home partition as /export/home, and then copy the data across to the new partition by something like

find -xdev /home | cpio -dpv /export

which should clone /home to /export/home

then just edit the fstab file and add a relevant lne like

/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 1

you can mount the partiton, and it won't remove the original one, if you unmounted it, the old home would reappear as if by magic. so when you're confidnet it's working ok, you'll need to specifially remove it, ususally by user single user mode.

Thank Chris. What if I copy the /home to my /export, the remail space for my /home? Is it going to be blank? recently, my /home is 2G. I don't wan leave it blank or do nothing for it. That's why I wanna link both /home and /export/home (new hdd) together instead of the /home to /export/home.


Thank you


Guanyu