On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 17:31, alex wrote: > Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap > and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. > > Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap > and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping / on > the original hda. > > How would you create new swap and /home partitions om hdb so Debian > would use these instead of the original /home and swap? Hi Alex, This is the basic step -- THIS IS NOT TESTED. wait for a few GURUS to debug. edit partition table with cfdisk /dev/hdb create file system with mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1 mount new partition with mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/home2 move data to new partition with mv /home/* /mnt/home2 get rid of old home directory with rmdir /home modify /etc/fstab to point to new partition with edit /etc/fstab add "/dev/hdb1 /home ext2 ?????? 1 1" (not sure what to put for ????) make changes active with reboot
the swap is similar: cfdisk /dev/hdb mkswap /dev/hdb2 edit /etc/fstab by changing /dev/<old-swap> to /dev/hdb2 reboot > > Additionally, how could you best utilize the space gained by > transferring data from the original /home to the new /home partition? > > alex > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
