hardisk full
Ow Mun Heng
ow.mun.heng at wdc.com
Tue Apr 13 07:26:49 UTC 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Stringer [mailto:ben at burbong.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:50 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: hardisk full
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:38, Bilal Dar wrote:
> > Thanks for all your help guyz, i followed the following
> steps, it might help
> > some else as well.
> >
> > 1. fdisk /dev/hdb (make partitions)
> > /dev/hdb1 (new partition)
> >
> > 2. mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1
> >
> > 3. mkdir /mnt/homenew
> >
> > 4. mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/homenew
> >
> > 5. cd /home
> >
> > 6. pax -pe -rvw . /mnt/homenew
> >
> > 7. mv -f /home /homeold
> >
> > 8. mkdir /home
> >
> > 9. add to fstab
> > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/homenew ext3 defaults 0 0
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Shouldn't this be /home ?
>
> >
> > 10. Reboot
> >
> > 11. rm -Rf /homeold
> >
You guys should also take a look at LVM..
I hear it makes quite a difference when you're facing
something like this.
I'm on a quest to understand how to get it done.
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