Format drive for /home dir
 

Redhat 8.0

I currently have a drive in my computer that I have dedicated just for swap space and to store the information for the /home directory. All the other information for Linux is on the main drive hda1.

I want to replace the drive that has the /home directory on it. When I initially setup that drive Linux formatted a specific amount of drive space for the /home directory (this was done during installation). How can I get Linux to format the new drive with a specific amount of space for the /home drive and a specified amount for the swap space?

Use 'cfdisk' or 'fdisk' if cfdisk is not installed to create the partitions, then create the filesystems, see "man mkswap" and "man swapon" for your swap, for your /home directory it depends on what filesystem you use, I use reiserfs so the command I use is 'mkreiserfs' to on the newly created partition. Do "man mkfs" for all the instructions.