-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 5 May 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
> I have had my sytem running on a WD 2.1G for over a year but I just bought > a Mylex SCSI card and a WD Enterprise drive. I have everything working > fine but now I want to mount /home on its own partition on the new faster > drive. What is the best way to accomplish this? Is it even advisable? > Sure, this is easy. Create the partition on the new drive where you want /home to live and create the ext2 filesystem on that partition. Then mount this partition on /mnt or something and copy you entire /home directory to the new filesystem (cp -r /home/* /mnt). Then modify your /etc/fstab to mount the new partition on /home (see the man pages for fstab). That way, the new partition will always be mounted to /home at boot time. You can mount it there right now without rebooting, simply by umounting /mnt and remounting that partition with /home as the mount point instead. If you run the mount command with no arguments, it will show you a list of mounted partitions. If your new partition shows up in that list, then you're all set. You can then delete you old /home directory (umount the new disk from /home first!!!). Noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNU8hwIdCcpBjGWoFAQHyewP+J5idxnHKPZUb75TaofVs3eadc78vE9zH 3+B+mTgFHSO0pOi542jM9WvmchzeQAzRxjkz/clutFNa3WlEM51pStF5kqvnIv+g R6AF4ye+ilk0t7X9nUrABLHo8AwjPAXGobtv6zWfG1L5LOBzNBhH/8o2+fgwYkjZ 5uJO2pTHt4s= =Our9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
