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Re: Adding hard drive

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Sun Nov 15 20:15:07 1998

From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:12:47 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.05.9811152000310.14011-100000@crow.eel.ufl.edu> from "Sudarsan Vasudevan" at Nov 15, 98 08:09:36 pm
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> 
> 
> Greetings!
> 		I have a sytem which runs Linux 5.1. I want to add a
> harddrive to it. Can anybody tell me how I do it? The other problem is I

Just partition it as desired, and make the filesystems, extra swap or
what have you, and mount the new partition(s) into the filesystem at
some point.

> want a part of this harddrive to be added to the existing /home partition.
> How do I do that? 

Easiest way is to move /home physically from the first drive to a
partition on the second, then mount the new partition on the new
drive at /home.

> Sudarsan.
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