symbolic link ln or mount??

[amonamon]

Hello..
I have my /home dir filled to 95% but other partition other disk

/my/other/disk has only 2% data on it..

how to say from now on when writing anything to /home that would write to /my/other/disk

I tried with symbolic link something..
or can I mount some directory to other on other disk??

Can U help me out with these concepts..

Thanks in advance..

[Court Campbell]

I would just create another logical volume in a volume group. Then mount that lvol and copy your /home directory data to the new mount point. When you are done you can then umount the new home lvol and umount /home and mount /home to the new lvol. Also make sure to update your /etc/fstab file.

[MarkSyder]

Is your /home directory used for users' home accounts? If so, you might like to move them to a new lvol on the second disc. E.g. /home/user1 could be a filesystem in its own right, which means when user1 creates a file it does not take up any room in /home.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Sundar_7]

I am not sure if I understand "can I mount some directory to other on other disk??". But, one parition/LV can only be mounted on one mountpoint at any given time, unless you use the LOFS filesystem type.

If you umount /home and create a symbolic link for /home from /my/other/disk , then ofcourse you will not see the old contents of /home.

Find out who is the user occupying more space in /home and have them perform housekeeping on the directories.

# cd /home
# du -sk * | sort -n

If possible, you should also look in to extending the filesystem. In my opinion, that is the cleanest way to address this problem.