extending space

[William Park]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 03:29:23PM -0400, 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

If you want just another directory for storage, then mount the new disk
anywhere, say /home2 or /home/newdisk.  If you want to have a single
partition for some reason, then you probably need to copy /home over.

Personally, I would just mount the new disk as /home2.  Minimum work.
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William
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