On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 09:47 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > I would like to move my home directory to a new 300GB SATA drive - I edit > video, so I need lots of space. > I've installed the hardware, and using qtparted I've formatted it as ext3 - in > qtparted it appears as sda1 > My current mounts: > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 on / type ext3 (rw) > /dev/proc on /proc type proc (rw) > /dev/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw) > /dev/devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > /dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > /dev/shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on /home type ext3 (rw) > /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (ro,umask=0222,gid=100) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > /proc on /var/named/chroot/proc type none (rw,bind) > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) > > I'm caught in a circular logic trap and I can't figure out what to do next. > I've read the mount and fstab man pages, and googled this issue, but I'm > missing something. What would be the next step? > > -- > Claude Jones > Bluemont, VA, USA > Go to init 1. Move home files to new drive. Unmount /home Edit fstab. Remount new /home. (Though, if you really want to, you can add the new drive to the LVM, and move the home snapshot to the new drive.) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Gilboa
