Hey guys,

I'm pretty new to Linux, but since our admin has left the company they asked me to have a look at it. So keep it easy

We have 2 disks in the machine, one of them is full so we bought a new one.

We have sda3 mounted on /export (which is full)

I copied all data of sda3 to the new sdb1 disk so its exactly the same as sda3. Since many of our programs use the /export mount I want the old sda1 /export mount to point to the new /exportnew mount.

Should I just be deleting everything thing in sda3 /export and make a symbolic link to /exportnew or is there another better way?

Thanks for the help in advanced, if I need to supply more info let me know.

Peter

What does the contents of your /etc/fstab file look like? If /export is just a mount directory, can't you simply "umount /export" and then "mount -t <filesystem> /dev/sdb1 /export"?

# /export was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=804c5071-3f7b-4553-a058-ed720dd26f21 /export ext3 relatime 0 2

So guess im going to remove that line and add?

/dev/sdb1 /export ext3 relatime 0 2

That'll probably do it, yup. Assuming that partition wasn't part of a volume group, but if it were, I guess you wouldn't be replacing the disk.