Suse 10 new Hard Drive install

[mphayesuk]

Ok what I have is a IDE 80gig Hard Drive installed which is /home/

What I want to do is add a xxxgig SATA drive and merge the two drives together to make a bigger /home/ drive without losing any information currently on the ide hard drive (/home/)

Thanks

[till]

Then you must shutdown the server, install the new HD, start the server again, run fdisk or cfdisk to partition the harddisk, the format the harddiskt with e.g. ext3.

Then i recommend to mount the new HD as e.g /mnt/tmp_home, copy all files from /home to the /mnt/tmp_home partition. Then change the /etc/fstab that your new hd is mounted as /home after reboot and then reboot your server.

[mphayesuk]

will this combine the two hardrives to make one /home OR is what you have said the way to replace one harddrive with another.

[till]

This will replace your home partition with a partition of the new harddisk. it will not replace the complete old harddisk. If you want to merge the new and old /home partition, you will have to use LVM (logical valume management) but I'am not sure if you can install it when the server is laready setup.

[mphayesuk]

Ok I take it that fdisk does run under linux, ie from the root command line.

[till]

Yes, the partitioning program on linux is called fdisk too But you can also use the program cfdisk, which is easier to handle.