RE: [SLUG] Mounting a second hard drive
The easist way to do it is to: 1. fdisk to make the partitions on the new disk 2. create the filesystem (different tools for diferent fs) 3. mount the disk in some temporary space eg /mnt/home2 4. copy all the data over from /home to /mnt/home2 ensuring that you maintain file permissions 5. edit fstab so that /home mounts on the new device 6. for safety mv /home /home_old (you can delete if everything is okay later) alternatively you can copy all the data across and symlink /home to the new location. Brett : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of : Edwin Humphries : Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:11 AM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: [SLUG] Mounting a second hard drive : : : I want to add a second hard drive to my server, but I need : to define it's mount : point as /home/. : : I've worked out how to partition it and set up the file : system, but all the advice : I've found so far uses rather useless (for me) mount : points such as /new/, or : /mnt/hd2, or similar. : : Can I mount the new drive into /home/? : What wil it do to the data already in that directory, and : its subdirectories? : : Edwin Humphries, : Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : www.ironstone.com.au : Phone: 02 4233 2285 : Fax: 02 4233 2299 : Mobile: 0419 233 051 : -- : SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ : More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug : -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Mounting a second hard drive
Yes you can mount your new drive into /home. Any data already in that directoty will not be accessable until you unmount the new drive. If you move the entire /home directory to say /hometemp and then mount your new drive to /home, you can then copy all the data from /hometemp to the new drive and everything will look like it did originally... Adam. On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 10:11, Edwin Humphries wrote: I want to add a second hard drive to my server, but I need to define it's mount point as /home/. I've worked out how to partition it and set up the file system, but all the advice I've found so far uses rather useless (for me) mount points such as /new/, or /mnt/hd2, or similar. Can I mount the new drive into /home/? What wil it do to the data already in that directory, and its subdirectories? Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ironstone.com.au Phone: 02 4233 2285 Fax: 02 4233 2299 Mobile: 0419 233 051 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
