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Name: GreggyD! Date: June 7, 2002 at 18:34:49 Pacific
Comment:
Help!
My hard drive is full! I have a spare drive with plenty of space. What I would like to do is move my /home partition to the new drive.
Will this work?....
Format new drive (hdb) as /home, then move all the files over and remove the /home partition on the old drive.
..or.. is there a way to span the /home partition over to the other drive so it acts like one *big* drive <<--- does this make sense?
> Format new drive (hdb) as /home, then move > all the files over and remove the /home > partition on the old drive.
Yes, after editing /etc/fstab. Be careful about removing the partition. If /home is hda4 and / is hda5, and you remove the /home partition, / will become hda4.
> ..or.. is there a way to span the /home > partition over to the other drive so it > acts like one *big* drive make sense?
Do you actually need a seperate partition for /home? You could have it act as one big partition, but /home would be part of /. But then you wouldn't be able to have /home on a seperate drive.
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