how to use with 2 HDD

    Hi there,


    I have got a question.


    I have got a server with 250GB HDD, I wanna buy a new 2TB HDD, but how can I include that 2TB to 250 storage? (sorry about poor english)

    Hello ;


    You can do that only if you use LVM.

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    Quote from Nuxwin


    Hello ;


    You can do that only if you use LVM.


    And what if I have got two server machines and I would like to use that 2 as one? (If I would like to get 4TB storage for example. Cloud?)

    you share the volume on second server with nfs, ftp or sftp/ssh, then mount it into a folder on first server.
    but you wont get 1x 4tb volume that way, you will get a 2tb volume with a mounted folder that can contain another 2tb.


    another way is to use a distributed file system, which obviously exceeds your knowledge, so better rent a cloud or one server with 4tb :)

    Quote from flames


    you share the volume on second server with nfs, ftp or sftp/ssh, then mount it into a folder on first server.
    but you wont get 1x 4tb volume that way, you will get a 2tb volume with a mounted folder that can contain another 2tb.


    another way is to use a distributed file system, which obviously exceeds your knowledge, so better rent a cloud or one server with 4tb :)


    Not enough money for 4tb cloud hosting.


    Now I will try to get 1-2tb more space that will be enough for a lot and after I will buy 2 or more server pc for my own cloud hosting.

    And what If I mount the new HDD and I reroute all webpages to the new HDD? ... How could I do it? Wich files need to modify?

    MAKE BACKUP FIRST! DON'T BLAME ME, IF IT GOES WRONG :P


    attention: sdb0 is just for example, find out what name your new hdd has and replace sdb0 in every command. sdb0 = first logical partition on second physical sata/scsi drive


    mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb0
    mkdir /media/sdb0
    mount /dev/sdb0 /media/sdb0


    /etc/initd./apache2 stop
    cp -R /var/www/virtual/* /media/sdb0/
    mv /var/www/virtual /var/www/virtual.old


    umount /media/sdb0
    mkdir /var/www/virtual
    mount /dev/sdb0 /var/www/virtual


    edit /etc/fstab and add following line (this is needed so the hdd will be automatically mounted at reboot)
    /dev/sdb0 /var/www/virtual ext3 rw 0 0


    /etc/init.d/apache2 start
    and see if any errors


    if everything went well, we can clean up after all
    rm -rf /var/www/virtual.old
    rm -rf /media/sdb0


    edit: and remember, this is just a second drive, it has no redundancy

    Edited once, last by flames ().