Hi You can add extra hard disk with ext3 partiton.After adding the hard disk do the following.
Formating: /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda5 Labeling Partition: e2label /dev/sda5 /work Creating mount point: mkdir /work Add to /etc/fstab: LABEL=/work /work ext3 default 1 2 With best wishes Sanjiv ----- Original Message ----- From: "yogesh anand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd] Increasing Space for an existing ext3 parition, RH9 > hi, > i am facing the same problem of space.can we add one > extra hard disk of 40 gb with ext3 file system and > mount it with my existing partitions like /var,/usr, > /home.. will it solve my problem. > > > > --- Robins Tharakan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i think parted is slightly dangerous, although then, > > almost everything > > is dangerous in the linux world! :) > > > > but apart from that.... > > what you could do is that you could create other > > partitions with the > > space you have as ext3... > > and then mount them as maybe > > /usr > > /home etc... > > > > that would do effectively the same work, and give > > protection from > > wipeouts if any... > > > > affly > > On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 01:42, Viksit Gaur wrote: > > > Hi all.. > > > > > > An interesting problem i'm facing is, the method > > > needed to add a couple of GBs to an existing > > partition > > > (ext3), without resorting to a fresh install. I > > have > > > some 120 MB free on it, but have a 19GB free > > > (unformatted) area. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ilugd mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
