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[ILUG] Adding a hard disk ....

[ILUG] Adding a hard disk ....

Declan Grady Declan.Grady at nuvotem.com
Wed Jul 14 09:57:21 IST 2004


Hi,
I have a box running redhat 7 for email & some local samba stuff, and 
local apache stuff.
Running low on space, since users have _seen the light_ on backups, etc, 
so I have another ide HDD to install.
question is, how do I incorporate this extra space into my existing 
structure.

I use /var/export/samba/ .. structure for the samba stuff, which I 
*could* move the the new disk

I have one /var partition which is used for :
Samba - all under /var/export/samba/
MailScanner, sendmail, qpopper- under 
/var/spool/[MailScanner,mail,mqueue,mqueue.in]

How can I restructure this, without losing any data.
i.e. I want to :
1. Shutdown box
2. insert new drive (probably as hdb, as I currently have one hda drive 
and one hdc cdrom.)
3. power up box
4. somehow partition extra drive, and move data form existing structure 
to new mountpoints

I dont know how to do this.... If i create a new /var/spool partition, 
how do I get at the data in the current /var/spool directory ?

Excuse the question if its stupid, but I really dont know.

Thanks,
Declan



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