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ibrewale
11-25-2004, 04:12 PM
I have 18GB box didicated only to linux. No windows.

I have a partition on my harddisk that is mounted, hda3, but is not utilized by linux for any file structure. A 2.9GB partition is mounted as /, and everything in my linux system is there, literally filling it up.
(I thought I set it up for /home, but I guess not...)


How can I mount, say, /home under the hda3? Do I have to muck with /etc/fstab? That seems logical, but I wanted to get some input as to what is the best way to go about using this 'dead' space.

Jerry

firebyrd10
11-26-2004, 07:02 AM
Yes you need to change the fstab.

Its not hard though.

Make sure only root is logged in,
Copy your /home directory to the drive,
unmount,
then open up fstab change the mount point of /dev/hda3 to /home
reboot and that should do it.