Topic: Need more space on my server

[chuckf]

All,  

My server's been running like a champ!  However, I'm starting to get low on disk space.  I have a 60 GB drive I wish to add.  

I want to use this drive for my ibays.  I've attempted a search for information on this but either there isn't any or my searching ability sux here..

Can anyone point me in the right direction?  What I think would be easiest would be to add the drive and expand the volume with the Ibays on it onto the new disk.  Does anyone have a how-to for this?

Please advise and thanks!!

Chuckf.

[Henk]

"add harddisk"  in the search box gave me a link to this topic:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24154.0

And in that topic is a link to this how-to:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/mblotwijk/HowToGuides/AddExtraHardDisk.htm

what did you say about your searching ability again....  

[chuckf]

Thanks!!

I searched it with "add hard disk" with a space and got no return..  

Isn't that the problem.. It all comes down to either too much or not enough space...  LOL

[svangool]

I'm trying to use Michiels Howto for the same reason.

But I can't "chown" with root:
[root@domain /]# chown root.allemaal /mnt/video
chown: changing ownership of /mnt/video': Operation not permitted

Root is not a member of "allemaal", should it? If yes, how (not with the server panel and not with /etc/groups)

chown root.root /mnt/video works.

Using SME 6.0

Some ideas?

Thanks, Sjef.

[Brenno]

I have a production server that I'm running now with this same situation. I installed two new drives, and mounted one at /home/e-smith/files/users and the other at /home/e-smith/files/ibays.  This maximized space for both the user mail I was hosting (IMAP can be a space-hog,) and the sites I was hosting.

The biggest problem I had was that the uer quotas won't work with this configuration.  This is because SME doesn't support multiple filesystems.  For more info on this, read this thread:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24391.msg99399#msg99399

See also this bug report that I started:

http://no.longer.valid/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000125

I banged my head against the wall for months trying to get this figured out, so at least you have it going into the situation!