Extend disk space range?

Midnight Dream · Oct 2, 2005

Ok, so here is the deal. My / system only has about 18GB Left. Im worried about that running out. However, I have another hdd in my system that isnt being used at all. I want to allocate this for more space in my system, but I dont know how I would go about doing this. Anybody have any recommendations?

{PMS}fishy · Oct 2, 2005

More space for what?

You can mount /home /etc /var or any other partion on any HDD you want.

I'm guessing you need more space, so I'd just format the entire drive and mount it to something along the lines of /home/storage

klingens · Oct 2, 2005

Google for LVM or LVM2 by now. LVM = logical volume management

Gnufsh · Oct 2, 2005

I agree with {PMS}fishy. I think that would be the easiest way to go.

If you decide to go the other way here is the LVM howto:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

Midnight Dream · Oct 2, 2005

Can I just copy the entire / directory to one drive, and move the /home to another, and it still work fine? (Sorry, im still in the windows mentality in this part)

MRD · Oct 2, 2005

Yes, if you cp -a to maintain directory structure and change your mounts in /etc/fstab to reflect the change. The system doesn't care where stuff is physically, only where it's mounted.

Midnight Dream · Oct 2, 2005

Alright, I know about the changing of /etc/fstab, just wasnt sure about everything else.

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