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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Chris Martin m: 0419812371 ---------------------------------------------------------- <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Peter Goggin <<a href="mailto:petergoggin@bigpond.com">petergoggin@bigpond.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div>