> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Stringer [mailto:ben@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:50 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: hardisk full > > > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:38, Bilal Dar wrote: > > 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 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Shouldn't this be /home ? > > > > > 10. Reboot > > > > 11. rm -Rf /homeold > > You guys should also take a look at LVM.. I hear it makes quite a difference when you're facing something like this. I'm on a quest to understand how to get it done.
