extending space

[Digimer]

On 08/20/2011 03:29 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> My /home partition is almost out of space, I just bought a new drive, is
> there a way for me to increase the space on my /home partition buy
> creating a 2nd /home partition on the other drive and "double" mounting it?
> 
> Can I do this on Linux to create a larger virtual /home partition? Over
> do I need to copy over everything to the new /home partition and only
> mount that under /home
> 
> Thanks

Depending on what backs /home, you may be able to grow it easily. Is it
an LVM logical volume? If not, how did you add space? Did you replace
drives in a software RAID array to get the new space? What filesystem do
you have on /home?

Details go a long way to getting help.

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