Moving a mount point

[mufka]

Currently I have one IDE hard drive in my RedHat 6.1 box. It's partitioned into / /home and /var. I need to add more space to the /home. I'd like to add a new drive. If I do, how do I move /home. Do I tar it up and blow it onto the new drive. Is there a step by step for this? When do I edit the fstab? Should I tar it to someplace else, edit the fstab to get rid of the current /home, then fdisk the new drive for /home then un-tar it? Once that's done, how can I reuse the free space on the old drive? How would I do it if I wanted to do the / partition?

I'm sure there's a doc that I need to be pointed to.

Thanks

 

[boebox]

If you had a Logical Volume Manager installed you could just extend the partition to the new drive, but in your case, the best thing would be to just tar up all the files you want to backup and cp them the another partition, than fdisk /dev/hda and delete the /home partion, then create another partition name(anything), reboot. When you add your new disk, the system will auto detect it, than you can fdisk it and re-create the /home partition.

Tony