[Cialug] Adding a drive to expand /home directory

[Todd Walton]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I mounted the drive as a subdirectory beneath /home called /home/extended.
> The problem is that although I can see the extended directory by using the
> ls command when I look at the /home directory from the file share I do not
> see the additional capacity of the drive.  The new drive should add twice as
> much space as was available with the original directory on the first drive.

What do you mean "when I look at the /home directory from the file
share"?  What program are you using to do that?

It's possible that what you're using is looking not at /home, but at
/home/tom, or whatever your own home is.  You could try mounting the
extra drive under your /home/tom (or whatever it is).  The trick there
is that you have to mount /home first and *then* mount the extra
drive.

Otherwise, make sure you're measuring the size of /home, and not /home/tom.

--
Todd