Creating a new root dir

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I know I can create a new root directory without a problem. But how do I specify it should go on the second hard drive, not the first? I would like /home and /data to both be on my big hard drive. I would like to also share all the disk space in the partition.

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[w1nn3r]

you might check out fstab,

http://www.humbug.org.au/talks/fstab/fstab.html

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?fstab+5

http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_scratch/chapter08/fstab.html

 

[zeland]

Pointing to your subject "Creating a new root dir", there can be 1 and only 1 / (root) in your DIR structure. What you could do is to mount your second (larger drive) to /home and symlink /data to /home. It should look something like

/ (hda1)
|- bin
|- home (hdb1)
| ^
| |
| symlink
| |
|- data
|- usr
|- var
etc.
(sorry if the ascii diagram sucks!)

So, in your /etc/fstab, you'll need to include an additional like that looks like

/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 default 0 0

replace hdb1 with whatever your actual HDD partition may be.

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[iSeriesCodePoet]

Just to clarify. I don't want to create /. I want to have both /home and /data on my second hard drive.

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[ericbrunson]

You can't have /home and /data on the same volume if it isn't the same one as /.

I would recommend mounting you disk on someplace like /mnt/disk2, creating /mnt/disk2/home and data, then symlinking /home and /data to the real dirs.

 

[cyoung]

there are no partitions that have to appear on the same physical disk as /. All you have to do is to create the partition you want on the new drive, and then edit fstab to reflect this.

example:

/dev/hdb1 /home
/dev/hdc1 /data

hope this helps

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

So can I do?
/dev/hdb1 /home
/dev/hdb1 /data


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[ericbrunson]

Yes, but what does that gain you?

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

An 80 gb hd for /home and /data and keep the OS on the smaller 4 gb.

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[iSeriesCodePoet]

Thanks for the help guys. I just created a symbolic link to /home/data. That appeared to be the easiest way, so that is what I did. Thanks!

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