Re: Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st

2005-03-09 Thread Xian
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:55, Chris wrote: > Ok - seems easy enough - however, what if I want to move /usr/home to > this new drive? you can mount it on /home and symlink /usr/home to /home. I think /home is usually symlinked to /usr/home when the home dirs are on the /usr partition. It work

Re: Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st

2005-03-09 Thread Chris
Chris Hill wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Chris wrote: > >> I have a 5.3 system that has an 80 gig drive. I wish to add another to >> it. What's the best (easiest) way to expand this with little to no >> effect on the current drive. > > > You want this second disk for extra storage, right? Not for

Re: Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Chris wrote: I have a 5.3 system that has an 80 gig drive. I wish to add another to it. What's the best (easiest) way to expand this with little to no effect on the current drive. You want this second disk for extra storage, right? Not for dual-boot or something? Assuming ex

Re: Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st

2005-03-08 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 04:19 pm, Chris wrote: > I have a 5.3 system that has an 80 gig drive. I wish to add another > to it. What's the best (easiest) way to expand this with little to no > effect on the current drive. Assuming the partion/id of the second drive is ad1s1d then mount /dev/ad1s1d

Re: Adding a 2nd disk without messing with the 1st

2005-03-08 Thread John Pettitt
Chris wrote: >I have a 5.3 system that has an 80 gig drive. I wish to add another to >it. What's the best (easiest) way to expand this with little to no >effect on the current drive. > > shutdown machine, plug in disk, switch machine on. (if it's a USB disk you can skip the on off part) Serio