>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. # Get a root shell. Commands follow. This is a comment. # New drive? Unsure of how it was handled? Scan it for defects. # This gives the drive a chance to swap bad blocks out for spares # before Linux ever sees them. It takes a while. Overnight for # a modern large drive. badblocks -w /dev/hdb # In a hurry? This is faster, not as thorough. badblocks /dev/hdb # Create a partition table. Rumor has it the first cylinders are # the fastest (maximizes MS-Windoze performance) so put swap there. cfdisk /dev/hdb # Create file systems and swap area. mkswap -c /dev/hdb1 mke2fs -c /dev/hdb2 # Activate new swap area just to see if it works. # Mount new /home temporarily. swapon /dev/hdb1 mkdir /b2 mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /b2 # Drop to single user; kills any pesky daemons writing stuff in background. telinit 1 # Anything here we don't understand? If not, proceed. cd /home && ls -la # Copy everything whose name does not start with a dot. cp -a * /b2 && sync # Move old /home aside. Move new /home into place. cd / mv home home-old umount /b2 && rmdir /b2 mkdir home mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /home # Make new /home mount and new swap next time. # Notice we are not deactivating the old swap. # The more swap spindles you have, the better. echo /dev/hdb2 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 >> /etc/fstab echo /dev/hdb1 none swap sw 0 0 >> /etc/fstab # Welcome to your new, larger machine. Restart daemons, X. telinit 2 # You don't have to reboot, but it's good practice to # test your new configuration, to make sure it boots okay. >how could you best utilize the space gained by >transferring data from the original /home to the new /home partition? Don't worry, /var/cache will use it eventually. You didn't move /var. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]