From: John H. <web...@ew...> - 2005-03-10 17:46:28
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Vernon Webb wrote: > > Just do the moves as proposed from the other guys who responded, and > then mount the new drive at /home, like this: > > > > mount /dev/hdxy /home > > OK, but again, what happens to the files that are there now? Are they > deleted? How do I recover that disk space? > If you are an "expert", you can mess around with fdisk and inodes and add that space to another partition. Maybe I should say a 'very well schooled expert' whose been there before on a non-critical system. This is a very dangerous operation. One mistake = all data lost. I had a situation like yours one time. I renamed the old mount to home2 and created the mount on the new drive of home. Moved all the files out of old home.. now home2 and into home. Or... 'most' of them. I left some of the huge poweruser sites on the old home2 partition. That made use of the space, then left the others set to default to the new home. Mixing like this would likely create the need for some config changes via console. This operation would be a lot to ask of Webmin. To me it would for sure be a lot faster to just do it by hand. It could also be used for backup storage... general file storage... special logging.. Mother Nature abhors an unfilled hard disk...you'll find something for it! John Hinton |