On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 09:29 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sun December 4 2005 9:47 am, 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? > > > Your comments below show you have gotten it right. Congratulations on learning new concepts and procedures. In spite of >10 years using Linux I still find a lot of things that I need assistance with and I am always glad to give back some of the help I have received over the years. The rapid change rate means you will never be done learning new things with Linux. > The long thread that followed this original query for help was the result of > my having to overcome many years of experience administering Windows based > file systems. I won't attempt to write a dissertation on the differences > between Linux and Windows file systems and media organization, but, in the > hope that it may be of use, here are the steps that worked. > > 1) Install new drive: > After physical installation and a reboot, I opened qtparted (Linux > partitioning/formatting tool) - qtparted recognized the drive immediately as > sda. I created a single partition on my new drive and formatted it as ext3. > > 2) Create a temporary mount point: > I created a new directory in /mnt calling it "mynewhome" > > 3) Boot into runlevel 1: > Restart the computer and at the first Fedora splash screen press the letter > 'a' on keyboard. This halts the boot process and brings up the kernel line. > At the end of that line typ '1' (the number one without quotes), and press > the enter key - this boots the machine into runlevel 1 or single user mode. > > 4) Mount drive to new directory: > When the prompt comes up, mount the new drive to the directory previously > created in /mnt (step 2 above) > 'mnt /dev/sda1 /mnt/mynewhome' > (the '1' is added to 'sda' to indicate the first partition on drive sda - even > though there is only one partition on the drive, this is the syntax that must > be used, else the command will fail) > > 5) Copy the contents of current home folder to the new drive: > 'cp -a/home/* /mnt/mynewhome' > (this step is important to get right - it takes all the contents of the > current /home and copies them to the root of the new drive, sda1, now mounted > as /mnt/mynewhome - you want everything BELOW /home to be transferred to this > new location - also, when copying the contents of /home to the new location, > you want all the attributes of the files preserved which is what the '-a' > option to the 'cp' command does - read the 'man cp' pages for details of this > command) > > 6) Edit the fstab file: > This file is read at boot time by your system, and mounts your drives to the > correct locations in your directory structure. > There are a limited number of text editors available at the command line. I > use 'joe': > 'joe /etc/fstab' > This opens the file in text editing mode. Find the line that contains the > mount for the current home - on my system it looked like this: > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > Comment this line by adding a '#' to front of it. > Now, add the line that will mount your new home - mine looked liked this: > /dev/sda1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > If you use the 'joe' editor to to do this, then 'ctl-k' followed 's' will ask > you if you want to save it; pressing 'enter' will save. 'ctl-k' followed by > 'q' will exit joe. > > 7) Reboot - if you got it all right, your machine should boot normally, but > using the new /home. If you made a mistake, you haven't altered anything > irreparably. You can revert the edited 'fstab' file to its prior state > easily, and be back where you started. All your old /home files will still be > there... > > After this has all run in a stable fashion for a few days, I will then tackle > how to eliminate the logical volume group 00, and take that space and add it > my logical volume group 01, which is where my '/' (the rest of the file > system) is mounted. > > Hope this of future help to someone, and thanks to all who helped me to figure > this out. > > -- > Claude Jones > Bluemont, VA, USA >
