Re: HD Regrets

[JFahnenmueller@t-online.de (Joachim Fahnenmueller)]

Hi Bob

I recently did a similar thing and it worked.

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:05:17PM -0400, Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote:
> I spent all of Sunday engaged in the venture of cleaning 
> my /etc/fstab file.
> 
> I have two hard drives in my Linux box, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb2.
> When I installed Knoppix, I learned that the installer will only 
> copy files to one disk.  Modification of the .kconfig file is 
> possible to enable installation to two drives but ... 
> "a dollar short, a day late".
> 
> The operation consisted of changing /etc/fstab and my 
> disk structure so that the /home/$USER directories were located 
> on /dev/hdb1, not /dev/hda1.  

Good idea.

> I created mkdir'ed the directories
> /home-copy/$USER on hdb1 

What exactly did you do? Should be
mkdir /home-copy
mount /dev/hdb1 /home-copy
etc.

> and cp'ed all dirs/files to 
> /home-copy/*.  Then the original /home dir was rm -rf'ed, 
> "/home-copy" was mv'ed into "/home", 

Again: What exactly? I think you should not have mv'ed but
mkdir /home
umount /home-copy
mount /dev/hdb1 /home

> /etc/fstab was edited 

What is it now??

> to reflect the new directory structure.  I thought everything was OK.
> 
> I rebooted the box and when I logged in, /hdb1 did not exist.
> To summarize, F'ing with the box for an inordinate amount of time
> revealed that /dev/hdb1 was not being auto-mounted on bootup, only
> /dev/hda1.  I must manually "mount /dev/hdb1" to access the /home 
> directory.
> 
> My question is two-fold:  1)  How do I cause /dev/hdb1 to automount 
>                               on bootup?
>                           2)  Is there a shorter solution to copying
>                               /home/* from /hda1 to /hdb1?  If so,
>                               what is it?
> 
> Any comments are welcome at tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Bob
> 
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> 
> Robert Tilley
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> tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com
> 

HTH
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Joachim Fahnenmüller

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