How/Can you do this
 

Hello,

I am currently pretty happy with security/setup of my main machine (RedHat 6.1). Trouble is i have it on a 6 gig hdd & really would like to know if there is any method of (expnading) it onto lets say a 20 gig hdd ???.

Same partitions just over the larger disk space

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb5 5.8G 2.5G 3.0G 46% /

Any advice on this ??

Regards

Andrew

Install a second hard drive in to your machine, then boot to single user mode (or type init 2 as root [CHECK this with the comments in /etc/inittab it might be 1 not 2])

Then create partitions on the new drive (cfdisk + mkfs).

Mount this in tempory locations (e.g. /mnt/tmp/newhome)

Move data on to them (e.g. mv /home/* /mnt/tmp/newhome/)

Mount them in their new locations (umount /dev/hdc2 ; mount /dev/hdc2 /home)

Edit /etc/fstab to add the new partitions.

the only way is to get a new disk and either replace it with the old disk or add it to the old one