Subject: Fwd: RE: Put home directories on second hard drive?
From: Zeke Runyon (zrunyon@mac.com)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 21:06:16 MST
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Steve McGrane" <mcsteve@globaltap.com>
> Date: Thu Dec 20, 2001 11:00:39 PM US/Eastern
> To: <zrunyon@mac.com>
> Subject: RE: Put home directories on second hard drive?
>
> Zeke -
>
> This is one of those things that I've done, but never told anybody how
> to... I'll point you in the right directions, and you can go from there.
>
> First, ID if it is sda, sdb, sdX... mke2fs /dev/sdX
>
> Second Make a temporary mount point and mount... mkdir /mnt/newhome;
> mount
> /dev/sdX /mnt/newhome
>
> Third, copy all the files from /home to /mnt/newhome... man cp and
> add all
> the options you feel are appropriate.
>
> Fourth, and this is where it depends on your school... umount /home;
> umount /mnt/newhome; mnt /dev/sdX /mnt/newhome... I usually do this
> after
> rebooting to single user mode to make sure that no /home files are in
> use...
> on an x86 system, I use a boot disk, or I edit /etc/fstab to make this
> change live on the next boot.
>
> If Fourth worked out, add it to /etc/fstab and figure out what to do
> with
> what was /home.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> NOTE: ALWAYS DOUBLE CHECK YOUR mkfs LINE. I accidently ruined my /
> partition with mkswap on a remote server (non production, was cocky,
> blah,
> blah, blah...)
>
> - Steve
> http://www.globaltap.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zeke Runyon [mailto:zrunyon@mac.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:39 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Put home directories on second hard drive?
>
>
> I have a second 2 gig SCSI hard drive on my 7200/120, on the second bay
> (a 'slave drive'?) that I'd like my home directories to be on.
>
> A). How do I format and mount the drive for linux in linux?
> B). How exactly do I put the home directories on this new drive?
>
> ##
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