I have an old 10gb hard drive and I wanted to upgrade and put in a 30gb drive. I put the 30gb drive in the machine as a slave. My Drives are /dev/hda = 10gb original, /dev/hdb = CD-Rom, and /dev/hdc = 30gb.

hda partitions: hda1 = 1gb /boot, hda2 = 8.8gb free space, hda3 = linux-swap 200mb (I think they were around these values)

I used the command: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc

Now my 30gb drive has an exact copy of hda.

hdc1 = 1gb /boot, hdc2 = 8.8gb free space, hdc3 = linux-swap 200mb, hdc4 = 20gb free space.

I took out the 10gb drive and put in the 30 and the computer is exactly the same as before, but I want to use the extra 20gb of space. I’m not sure what type of partition to make hda4 (was hdc4). Just experimenting I made hda4 the standard ext3 and then mounted it. It worked, but I have to mount the drive every time I reboot.

Would be nice to have a little more of an explanation if someone would be so oblgiged. I did read http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...a_Linux_System and looked around the internet for more help, but most of it is over my head yet.

What do you want to do, have hda4 mount automatically when you boot? That's what is sounds like to me.

First, create a mount point. Second, edit /etc/fstab to tell the system where to mount it. Add a line to fstab such as Third, reboot and your new 20GB volume should be mounted at /new_20GB_mount_point.

Here is a short primer on editing fstab.