Thanks for all your help guyz, i followed the following steps, it might help
some else as well.
1. fdisk /dev/hdb (make partitions)
/dev/hdb1 (new partition)
2. mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1
3. mkdir /mnt/homenew
4. mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/homenew
5. cd /home
6. pax -pe -rvw . /mnt/homenew
7. mv -f /home /homeold
8. mkdir /home
9. add to fstab
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/homenew ext3 defaults 0 0
10. Reboot
11. rm -Rf /homeold
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Orchard" <laurence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: hardisk full
> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 06:12, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > Bilal Dar wrote:
> >
> > >Well thanks but i am not even at this step now, my new device is
/dev/hdb. I made two partitions /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2. Now what should be
my next step. I dont know what to do next.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Gertjan Vinkesteijn
> > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:10 PM
> > > Subject: Re: hardisk full
> > >
> > >
> > > Bilal Dar wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I am having this problem, my harddrive got full so i added another
one to my machine. Now i don't know how to move my /home /var to the new
drive. Can someone guide me, i just made the partitions using fdisk.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Follow these steps and it should work very well. If nervous about
> > following these steps, follow the steps for /home first and after it
> > works and you are comfortable then repeat the steps to do /var.
> > Use tar because it easily maintains ownership and permissions whereas cp
> > requires special flags to do that.
> > This all must be done as root.
> >
> > 1. create 2 mount points in /mnt.
> > call them /mnt/home and /mnt/var
> >
> > 2. mount the appropriate partition on each.
> > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/home etc.
> >
> > 3. create tar files (This assumes you have at least twice the currently
> > used space in each of the new partitons. If not, choose a different
> > location where space is available to create the tar files, or do just
> > one filesystem at a time and use the other partition as the location to
> > create that file.)
> > # tar cvf /mnt/home/home.tar /home
> > # tar cvf /mnt/var/var.tar /var
> >
> > 4. Now extract the tarball to the new partitions
> > # cd /mnt
> > # tar xvf home/home.tar
> > # tar xvf var/var.tar
> > 5. do a quick verification of the completeness of both new sets of
> > files extracted.
> > A quick way to check it is close is
> > du -s /var
> > du -s /mnt/var
> > The numbers should be very close if not exact.
> >
> > 6. (this one can be done now or later)
> > If step 5 appears good then do # rm /mnt/home.tar
/mnt/var/var.tar
> >
> > 7. Now comes the hard (easy??) part -- actually putting the new
> > filesystems on the mount point.
> > a. Edit /etc/fstab to make sure the new partitons will be mounted
> > on /home and /var
> > eg. /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> > /dev/hdb2 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
> > b. You must remove the old contents of /home and /var _before_ you
> > mount the new partions at that point so you have that space available.
> > (If you do not, the space will not be available and the clearing cannot
> > be done with the filesystem mounted at that point)
> > (carefull on the spelling with this one)
> > # rm -rf /home/*
> > then
> > # rm -rf /var/*
> > c: Reboot
> >
> > If you have carefully followed all the steps above, now reboot and
> > everything will be on the new filesystems and space previously used will
> > be free.
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> Hi all
>
> Hope I'm not being obvious here or have missed something!!
>
> What happens about the mkfs?
>
> Surely he has to make the file systems on the partitions BEFORE he can
> copy on to them or mount them.
>
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 -c -c
>
> takes a while with the 2 -c, but it will do a complete surface check,
> miss it if you are sure the disk is ok
>
> Laurence
>
>
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