Re: Adding a new harddisk

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/06/04

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    On Thu, 06 May 2004 09:14:43 +1200, Jeffrey Ross wrote:

    >> - Is there a possibility to make sure that hdb, will be an extension of my
    >> partition hda9 ?
    >> in other words, I need to increase the size of my /home directory with
    > this
    >> 2nd harddisk !!
    >
    > I don't know if mke2fs on hdb is correct. I would expect you to partition
    > the disk first and then run mke2fs on the partition, eg hdb1. You can then
    > unmount /home, remount it elsewhere, eg /mnt/hda9 mount the new file system
    > as /home, and move all files from /mnt/hda9 to /home. hda9 can then be
    > reused for something else.
    > I've not done this on Linux so there may be a smarter method like LVM (which
    > would allow you to join your new disk into /home, but takes some more work).

    I agree with partitioning hdb first.

    And, yes, LVM would let you dynamically expand filesystems but
    Stephane already has a live filesystem in "/home" and setting up LVM
    requires starting with a clean partition, sort of a ground-up
    configuration.

    I would recommend partitioning hdb, formatting a smaller section of
    it as an additional swap area and the majority of it as an EXT3
    filesystem. Mount the EXT3 filesystem as "/home1" and just use the
    "-d /home1/foo" switch when using useradd for "foo". There's no law
    that requires user home directories to actually be in "/home"; that's
    why God invented the "~" expansion and "$HOME" ;-)

    (Well, to be honest, He did get someone else to type it in...)

    But, if you need the new disk because your "/home" partition is
    already overflowing, just migrate some of your users home directories
    to the "/home1" late tonight. Look at the usermod(8) man page for
    the "-d home" and "-m" switches.

    Cheers!

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