Step 1:
Create partitions using fdisk
e.g fdisk /dev/hdb (for primary slave)
Step 2:
Create file system using mkfs.ext3
e.g mkfs.ext /dev/hdb1
e.g mkfs.ext /dev/hdb1
Step 3:
mount partitions
# mkdir /mnt/hd2
# mkdir /mnt/hd3
# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd2
# mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hd3
Step 4:
copy dir. to that paritions
# cp -rf /home /mnt/hd2
# cp -rf /var /mnt/hd3
Step 5:
rename old directories
# mv -f /home /homeold
# mv -f /var /varold
Step 6:
Add to fstab
# vi /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1 /home auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /var auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /var auto defaults 0 0
Step 7:
Reboot system and make sure that every this is ok and all data in /home and /var is there.
Step 8:
After surity of step 7 delete /homeold and /varold
# rm -rf /homeold
# rm -rf /varold
regards
Bilal Dar <bdar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear All,My harddrive got full, so I added another one. Now I do not know how to expand the older filesystems, I just made partitions using filesystem. How can I format it using ext3 and move /home /var to the new harddisk.Thanks.--
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