Add a new HardDisk

[Michael Gargiullo]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:50, truejack at indiainfo.com wrote:
> Folks,
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> I am new to the LINUX thing. Mostly been a Microsoft guy so far.
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> I need a add a new HardDisk to my RH8.0 box.
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> How do I go about doing it and configuring the new Hardrive.
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> I am pasting mt df -h output here
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> Filesystem            Size        Used    Avail      Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3              14G      12G       2.0G     86%         /
> /dev/hda1              99M     17M      76M      18%        /boot
> /dev/hda2              20G      16G       4.1G      79%       /home
> none       & nbsp;          503M          0         502M      0%      
> /dev/shm
> /dev/hdc1              57G      19G       35G        34%     
> /software
> /dev/hdc2              57G      40G       14G        73%      /space
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> And, I would like move /home to the new HDD I create, how do get that
> done. 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
Someone correct me if I'm wrong...

Assuming /dev/hdd1 /var/home

modify /etc/fstab to mount hdd1

#mv /home/* /var/home/
#rm -rf /home
#ln -s /var/home /home

Verify permission on new home directory

Modify paths as necessary. 


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