Hi,

Ashok Iyer wrote:

server with 36GB allocated for /home. I want to make /home 72GB by adding another disk.

If you are adding, 36GB and want to use /home which is partly on 1st disk and partly on 2nd, then may be you should use symlinks. Say 25% user directories in old disk and 75% new disk. (there are other better ways to choose directories to move, this is probably simpler)

In single user mode a) Create /new_home directory, mount new hard disk on it.(make it permanent by adding it to /etc/fstab). b) Move 75% directories from /home to /new_home, in /home make symlinks to moved directories c) All new user created will have their directories on old home, so you might have to periodically move few to new_home and create symlinks. But choosing 25-75% scheme will make that period long enough so that you do not have to maintain very frequently.

Can you suggest how this can be accomplished non-destructively as well as destructively. I dont mind moving the existing data out of /home, repartitioning it and then moving the data back. I am using SCSI disks.

Other option, I am not sure of how to do, is using md(multiple-disk) devices. Where you can combine two partitions in such a way that they act as single parition.

Other option might be to move, /var, /usr partitions to move to new disk and create more space on old_disk and allocate that space to /home, but requires partition rearranging. Please do ask if you do not know how to do it. Btw, even I dont know these are just suggestions ;-).

Amish.