Additional HardDisk

[IAK Tanoli]

Step 1:
Create partitions using fdisk 
e.g fdisk /dev/hdb (for primary slave)
 
Step 2:
Create file system using mkfs.ext3 
e.g mkfs.ext /dev/hdb1
 
Step 3:
mount partitions 
# mkdir /mnt/hd2
# mkdir /mnt/hd3
 
# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd2
# mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hd3
 
Step 4:
copy dir. to that paritions
# cp -rf /home /mnt/hd2
# cp -rf /var /mnt/hd3
 
Step 5:
rename old directories
 
# mv -f /home /homeold
# mv -f /var /varold
 
Step 6:
Add to fstab
 
# vi /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1    /home auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2    /var auto defaults 0 0

Step 7:
Reboot system and make sure that every this is ok and all data in /home and /var is there.
 
Step 8:
After surity of step 7 delete /homeold and /varold
# rm -rf /homeold
# rm -rf /varold
 
 
regards
 
 

 

 
Bilal Dar <bdar at pbad.sbg.com.sa> wrote:

Dear All,
 
My harddrive got full, so I added another one. Now I do not know how to expand the older filesystems, I just made partitions using filesystem. How can I format it using ext3 and move /home /var to the new harddisk.
 
Thanks.
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