Adding Disks to system

[Chris Martin]

Peter.

This the short version...
Contact me if you need more specific instructions

Once you have the drive installed.

use "gparted" - this is a GUI tool that will partition and format the new
disk

The mount it in a convenient location (say /mnt)

Copy your existing /home to /mnt - takeing care to preserve permissions and
ownership

umount /mnt,

mount your drive as /home - this will replace the directory /home with the
content of the drive (however the original data in /home will still be
preserved, just not accessible while the drive is mounted)

test..  test.. test..

if all goes well, unmount /home,
double check it is unmounted ...  and check again

delete the origional /home contents

mount the drive as /home (again)

edit /etc/fstab to make the change persistant across reboot and have /home
mounted automatically on reboot

Cheers
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Chris Martin
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com>wrote:

> It is many years since I have needed to get down to the nitty gritty of
> systems and hardware.
>
> I have a single disk ububtu system and I want to add another disk to the
> system and would preferably prefer to have it appeat as part of the Home
> area.
>
> Can this be done and if so how?
>
> Any advice will be gratefully received.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Peter Goggin
>
>
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