Newbee question again and again...

I do have 60g hard drive and I'm using Slack12.

I partitioned 30g for my / and 2g for my swap.

Now I don't know how to mount my second partition and use it for my /home directory. As of now am working as root all the time. I will be creating new user later.

Please anybody?

#fdisk -l
#mkdir /home
#mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /home (EXAMPLE)
#adduser or use the GUI (control centre)

#man mount
#mount --help

If the partition exists, then it need formatting. Once that is done, you will need an entry in /etc/fstab.

Here is what it looks like for my /home ...

Things that may differ, the first field, /dev/sda6 will depend on the hard drive type. This is a sata drive, hence the sda. The 6 is the first user partition on an extended partition.

ext3 is the file system type. This will change depending on the file system type you select when formatting. The rest should get you going.

Once you edit fstab, as root, then a command 'mount /dev/sda6' or a 'mount -a' shoudl mount the partition. No need to boot.

BTW, 30g for a / is overkill. It won't hurt, but you are very unlikely to fill that up. User files should never go to your / partition. Just the system and if you like, applications.

Thanks a lot guys, I'll do these when I get home later.



Thats what I thought also but is there anyway I could resize my / w/o re-installing the OS?