On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Agustin Lobo wrote:
I've got a new scsi disk, which I want to use for the /home partition. I've run cfdisk for /dev/sdb and mkreiserfs. I'vr created a /home2 directory for /dev/sdb and copied the old /home to /home2. Then I've made a soft link from /home to /home2.
This is the wrong way to do this, you would be better off changing /etc/fstab so that the new partition (/dev/sdb) is mounted at /home. Then you can delete the old /home partition and expand the size to recover the space.
True, but my problem was that I could not backup the contens of the original /home, simply had no device for that. So I had to copy it to te new disk. Was there an alternative under these circumstances? Agus