[NTLUG:Discuss] Adding new hard drive

[Brian]

Wayne--

One approach is to keep the existing hard drive, add the new hard drive, and move
some of the directories currently mounted on the original drive to the new drive.
/usr/local is usually a good candidate.  You'll have to create a partition on the
new drive, temporarily mount it under, say, /mnt/usr/local, and then copy /usr/local
over to /mnt/usr/local.  Change the mount point in /etc/fstab.  Repeat with other
partitions.

Unless there's a compelling reason to remove the original drive (i.e., whines like a
jet engine), I'd leave it with its boot partition intact and just farm out some of
the existing mount points to the new drive.

  --Brian


On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 02:45:35PM -0500, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> Hi all. 
> 
> I have some questions about adding a new hard drive. 
> 
> When I installed RH 7.3 on this box, I had only about 2 Gigs of space to
> do it in.  I have bought a 40 Gig drive I'm installing on this machine
> and don't really want to have to start over with everything. 
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