Expanding Home Partition

[Kerpymon]

Good afternoon folks, how are ya today?

This procedure seems to evade me. I've got two physical hard drives, both SATA, in BIOS I have in IDE mode. My partitions are as follows on a 500GB drive:

/dev/sda1 (root) 15GB with ext3
/dev/sda2 swap 6GB
/dev/sda3 /home with ext3 which occupies the remainder of the drive.

My question being, how would I extend my home partition on t o my second 500GB drive?

[coopstah13]

You can't do that without using LVM I don't think. I would google for some tutorials on it. I don't think it will be the easiest thing to pull off. You will probably have to backup the data to the other drive, then create the LVM on the original drive, then copy the data back, then expand the LVM with the new drive. I'm not really sure though.

[Jonathan183]

You might find it easier to create a partition on your second hard drive and cp -a some of your data over to that partition. You can also pick the file system type and partition size to optimise performance. Depending on what you use the system for the 6GB swap maybe larger than required. If your moving video/audio files about then you can probably do that from in SuSE as well ... otherwise its probably better to boot from a live CD to move data over.

[gogalthorp]

Just create the partition on the new drive and mount it in you home directory. For most purposes this should be fine. You can do the formating and make it auto-mount in Yast- System- Partitioner. Just decide where you want it to mount in your home directory. Then you will have additional space to use. Think of it in terms of the windows drive idea. If you want a transparent solution LVM is the way but it needs to be set up at the beginning when you install the system. I don't believe it can just be pasted on. At least not with major headaches.