adding additional hard drive

cjstm · #1 21st February 2006, 07:58 PM

Hello everyone, i am running fc4 apache server and have run out of hard drive space and have another to place in the box. I know how to physically install the hd, and i know how to format the hard drive just not sure how to set up my server so it will serve off that hard drive also. all my document are located in /var/www/html, i think i have to make a symbolic link to do this but not sure how to do it. any help would be greatly appreciated

linmix · #2 21st February 2006, 08:28 PM

Do you wish to use the new hard drive as an extention of /var or as your new /var partition?
Provided var already resides on its own partition, read up on the dd command to copy the data into the new partition and then update your /etc/fstab to reflect the new location of var. Stop any services etc. that may be accessing /var, unmount it and remount the new partition.

If you want to use links the command is ln, and since only soft links can be made between different partitions use 'ln -s TARGET [LINK_NAME]'

cjstm · #3 21st February 2006, 09:08 PM

no don't want to move old file onto new hard drive want to be able to put additional server content on the new harddrive, i guess what i am asking is how do make the server serve content off of the old and new harddrive

cjstm · #4 21st February 2006, 09:46 PM

ok been doing alot of reading, but i think i got it. Would this be correct

Navigate to /var/www/html and from the command prompt enter this command

ln-s path to hd2 / link name

Will this create a link between /var/www/html and hd2 that way when the server gets a request for content on hd2 it will be served up?

linmix · #5 21st February 2006, 10:04 PM

should be:
ln-s /path/to/hd2 /path/to/link/name
e.g. ln -s /mnt/hdb1 /var/www/html

BUT, that means that ALL the content of the folder html should go on the new drive!

cjstm · #6 21st February 2006, 10:25 PM

so how do I config apache to serve content off of both hda1 and hda2?

this is just a guess but would configuring an alias or maybe a virtural host solve this problem?

linmix · #7 21st February 2006, 11:00 PM

the first answer that comes to mind is using LVM partitioning. Thaa way a single partition can span more than one drive...

as an in-between sollution you might also create links for a number of folders below /var/www/html

cjstm · #8 22nd February 2006, 11:02 AM

yep LVM sound like what i need, now i have to go to school and learn how to do this with out destroying my server content. Thanks for answering the post. I appreciate all the help