Need to split /home

keith morse kgmorse
Wed Oct 20 09:23:44 PDT 2004


Michael Hipp wrote:
> Wil McGilvery wrote:
> 
>> Why not just put one sym link in home to a directory on a new disk and 
>> move everything into the new directory?
> 
> 
> If I wanted to use all of a new disk it would be easy to either just 
> mount the new disk as /home or use a single symlink.
> 
> But I wanted to keep the existing 120GB disk that is 95% full and "add" 
> another one to it so I have their combined storage space. Otherwise just 
> putting in a new 200GB disk doesn't really gain me that much.
> 

You should be able to do this with lvm


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