Subject: RE: Put home directories on second hard drive?
From: Steve McGrane (mcsteve@globaltap.com)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 21:29:54 MST
3, You shouldn't have to specify blocks, it should figure it out on its own,
unless you are really advanced.
6, the lines wrapped on your screen, make sure you add all the data from a
similar line, its safe to copy the line for "/" and edit it to say "/home",
man fstab for the info on the numbers, or it should be in a comment on the
first line. One of those things that was important to know until I read it
the first time, now I know its not important enough to remember ;-)
Looks good, have fun.
- Steve
http://www.globaltap.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Zeke Runyon [mailto:zrunyon@mac.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:13 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: Put home directories on second hard drive?
* Here's what I'm planning to do. Please look over/approve. *
1). Shut down the system and plug in the second SCSI drive.
2). Start up, do a dmesg | less to verify that the new drive is /dev/sdb
3). mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb <blocks> (how do I find out the exact number
of blocks?). Does this command reformat the drive?
4). mount this new drive at /newhome, copy all my /home files to /newhome
5). umount /dev/sdb, rm /home (knowing that I'm running nothing from the
directory currently), mount /dev/sdb /home
6). Edit /etc/fstab to add the new drive, my /etc/fstab file reads
currently:
/dev/sda9 / ext2
defaults 1 1
/dev/sda8 swap swap
defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto
noauto,ro,user 0 0
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs
defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
What do I add?
/dev/sdb /home ext2 defaults
What _are_ the numbers (0 and 1) at the end of each line of my current
/etc/fstab file?
7). Reboot and hope everything works...
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