Hi, I'm running 9.1 and I'd like to use 2 hard disks. On the first, there
would be the system, and /home would be on the 2nd.
But I receive an error message.
/home is still on the 1st disk. Can anybody tell me how to move that
directory on hdb1?

My /etc/fstab:

none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

G. Smith wrote:

> Hi, I'm running 9.1 and I'd like to use 2 hard disks. On the first,
> there would be the system, and /home would be on the 2nd.
> But I receive an error message.
> /home is still on the 1st disk. Can anybody tell me how to move that
> directory on hdb1?
>
> My /etc/fstab:
>
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> /dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

Your /etc/fstab shows home on on /dev/hdb1, as you'e got root on /dev
hda1 your /etc/fstab must be right.
--
Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."

G. Smith wrote :

> Hi, I'm running 9.1 and I'd like to use 2 hard disks. On the first, there
> would be the system, and /home would be on the 2nd.
> But I receive an error message.

What's the error message? In Linux error messages is quite often part of
the solution.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

"G. Smith" <undisclosed@domain.com> wrote in message
news:c6bb3g$a7623$1@ID-204724.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Hi, I'm running 9.1 and I'd like to use 2 hard disks. On the first, there
> would be the system, and /home would be on the 2nd.
> But I receive an error message.
> /home is still on the 1st disk. Can anybody tell me how to move that
> directory on hdb1?
>
> My /etc/fstab:
>
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> /dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

Well you would need to edit your /etc/fstab to mount your /home to another
drive.

/dev/hda2 /home ext3 defaults 1 1

that should do the trick.

Scott Eberl wrote:

> "G. Smith" <undisclosed@domain.com> wrote in message
> news:c6bb3g$a7623$1@ID-204724.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> Hi, I'm running 9.1 and I'd like to use 2 hard disks. On the first, there
>> would be the system, and /home would be on the 2nd.
>> But I receive an error message.
>> /home is still on the 1st disk. Can anybody tell me how to move that
>> directory on hdb1?
>>
>> My /etc/fstab:
>>
>> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
>> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
>> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
>> /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
>> /dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
>> /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> Well you would need to edit your /etc/fstab to mount your /home to another
> drive.
>
> /dev/hda2 /home ext3 defaults 1 1
>
> that should do the trick.


That's not going to work. His fstab shows that swap is on /dev/hda2. He
can not put his /home/partition and his swap on the same partition. His
fstab looks good.

I would do a fdisk /dev/hdb to see if you actually have an hdb1. Also chack
your dmesg. and see that you have an hdb and an hdb1. You might have put
hdb on the secondary IDE channel or you did not set up HDB to be a slave on
the primary channel.

JM

G. Smith wrote:
> Hi, I'm running 9.1 and I'd like to use 2 hard disks. On the first, there
> would be the system, and /home would be on the 2nd.
> But I receive an error message.
> /home is still on the 1st disk. Can anybody tell me how to move that
> directory on hdb1?
>
> My /etc/fstab:
>
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> /dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

You need to copy the contents of /home to the new disk. Login as
root to do this.

mkdir /new
mount /dev/hdb1 /new # use correct device.

cp -a /home/* /new
# DO NOT copy /home since you will still have a /home directory
for a mount point to the new disk you only want the files and
directories copied to the new disk/partition.

umount /new
mv /home /home-old # save files until your sure things
# are working properly.

mkdir /home # make new mount point for /home

Now if you have your /etc/fstab configured for the right device
/home should reside on the new disk but you will have to either
reboot or remount /home before the changes will take affect.

When done and everything is working you can delete the /new and
/home-old directories to free up disk space.

--
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Uptime: 6 days, 14:01, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.17, 0.18

On 2004-04-23, Scott Eberl <scott@airea420.com> wrote:
> "G. Smith" <undisclosed@domain.com> wrote in message
> news:c6bb3g$a7623$1@ID-204724.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> Hi, I'm running 9.1 and I'd like to use 2 hard disks. On the first, there
>> would be the system, and /home would be on the 2nd.
>> But I receive an error message.
>> /home is still on the 1st disk. Can anybody tell me how to move that
>> directory on hdb1?
>>
Have no problems with the following setup
mkdir /userdir
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /userdir
cp -dpR /home /userdir
mv /home /home.bak
ln -s /userdir/home /home
Remove /home.bak if everything is OK.
Did the same for /usr/local and /opt

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