Hi Bob I recently did a similar thing and it worked.
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:05:17PM -0400, Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote: > I spent all of Sunday engaged in the venture of cleaning > my /etc/fstab file. > > I have two hard drives in my Linux box, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb2. > When I installed Knoppix, I learned that the installer will only > copy files to one disk. Modification of the .kconfig file is > possible to enable installation to two drives but ... > "a dollar short, a day late". > > The operation consisted of changing /etc/fstab and my > disk structure so that the /home/$USER directories were located > on /dev/hdb1, not /dev/hda1. Good idea. > I created mkdir'ed the directories > /home-copy/$USER on hdb1 What exactly did you do? Should be mkdir /home-copy mount /dev/hdb1 /home-copy etc. > and cp'ed all dirs/files to > /home-copy/*. Then the original /home dir was rm -rf'ed, > "/home-copy" was mv'ed into "/home", Again: What exactly? I think you should not have mv'ed but mkdir /home umount /home-copy mount /dev/hdb1 /home > /etc/fstab was edited What is it now?? > to reflect the new directory structure. I thought everything was OK. > > I rebooted the box and when I logged in, /hdb1 did not exist. > To summarize, F'ing with the box for an inordinate amount of time > revealed that /dev/hdb1 was not being auto-mounted on bootup, only > /dev/hda1. I must manually "mount /dev/hdb1" to access the /home > directory. > > My question is two-fold: 1) How do I cause /dev/hdb1 to automount > on bootup? > 2) Is there a shorter solution to copying > /home/* from /hda1 to /hdb1? If so, > what is it? > > Any comments are welcome at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you, > > Bob > > ---------- > The content of the message is a reflection only of the writer and not of AT&T or > Tybrin. > > Robert Tilley > 321-785-2010 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTH -- Joachim Fahnenmüller # Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into # your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
