On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 11:53, David Rankin wrote:
Mates,
I have 8.2 pro on /hda, cdrw on /hdc and another 20G drive I want to add as /hdc and move the cd to /hdd. The 20G drive has 9.0 pro on it that I thrashed. After I install the 20 G as /hdc, I would like get your help with just the basic names of the cmd line tools to do the following.
(1) partition and reformat /hdc to ext2 as the /home partition; (2) move my existing /home from /hda to /hdc; and (3) hopefully not screw up my 8.2 install on /hda.
I can handle the /etc/fstab entries.
Just a link to a page with this info would be fine.
I would recommend connecting the drive to /dev/hdb rather then mix a cdrw drive and a hard drive on the same ide controller. You'll have far fewer problems I/O that way. as root in run level 3: (1) install the hard drive on hdb (2) fdisk the drive as one partition (you can use YaST for this and #3) (3) mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1 (4) mount the partition to a temporary mount point mount /dev/hdb1 /temp (5) copy the /home data to the temp mount point (cd /home;tar cf - *)|(cd /temp;tar xvf -) (6) umount /temp (7) mv /home /home.old (assuming on the root filesystem) (8) add mount point in /etc/fstab (9) mkdir /home; mount /dev/hdb1 /home (10) login as user on another tty to test If you have no errors after logging in as a normal user you should be safe to go. And you never needed to reboot after adding the 2nd drive just init 5 as root. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)