Hi,
I'm having a couple of problems with Linux Partitions and I'm hoping someone can help.
When I first installed Linux a year ago I installed it onto a 1 Gig Hard Drive with two Partitions / and /home at the time this was enough and I wasn't really doing much with it. However I've now filled the Drive and I want to add a second hard drive with Partitions for /var,/etc,/usr and /tmp. Is it possible for me to mount these drives onto my system and then copy the Data from the relevant folders under / into the new partitions I have created on the new,second, Hard drive.

Has anyone done anything like this before. How would I go about do this.

I don't want to have to Start from scratch and have to install linux again.

Someone suggested that I format and partition the drive and mount it onto /mnt so that I could copy the relevant data into the correct partitions.

I would then be able to Mount the partition permanently in the fstab file.

However what will happen to the var,etc,usr and tmp folders under / will i have to delete these in order for linux to point at the correct partitions instead.

Hope this makes sense to someone.

Thanks

Flossie

If you mount the new partition that contains the /var files over the existing /var directory and have the entry in fstab on reboot you will see your new /var directory. The old /var directory will still be there will all it's data intact you just won't be able to see/use it.