On Tuesday 04 May 2004 08:43 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > >I'm sure this was covered some where but, > >I got to the point that i had only 12 Kb free on a 20 Gb drive (Not Good) > >I do have an Identical drive installedproblem is > >I can't rembember if I had installed anything on it > >any way of Identifying it and using it as a new /home directory > > You can use harddrake to see if there are partitions on the drive. If > there are, you can mount them, and see what is on them. You can also > delete what is on the drive, and create your own partitions. If the > drive you are looking at has partitions already mounted, then you are > looking at the wrong drive. (You probably do not want hda...) > > Once you have the drive the way you want it, you will need to mount it > on a tempary mount point, and copy /home to it. Then rename /home to > something like /home1, create a new /home directory, and set the new > home partition to mount on /home. > > I usualy use command line tools to do this, but it looks like you can > use harddrake to do the partition changes. I am not sure what the > easyest way to copy /home to the new partition is. If you do it from X, > make sure you are root when you do it. From the command line, I like to > use Midnight Commander (mc) to do that type of copy. > > Mikkel thanks sometimes my newbie status jumps up and bites me on the .... smitty
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