Adding new partitions not initially detected and moving the /home directory to a new partition if desired.

After I did an install of Slackware 7.1 on an IBM Thinkpad 365E from floppies,
I realized after using a df -h command that not all of the hard drive space
was showing up. Upon issuing a fdisk -l command as root, I saw there was
indeed around 300 mb of free space. I then carefully used cfdisk to claim the
free space, calling it a linux native partition. I wanted to use the new
partition for /home, and found this excellent page outlining the method for
moving it to a new partition:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/partplan.html

Another page about partitions, in general:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/sag/x885.html

J.M.
11/09/01
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