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Re: how can I add disk space?



Given your current Linux literacy, I would recommend you don't.

Unless you're willing to post output (third request), I'm unable and
unwilling to provide further assistance.

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:20:19PM +0200, Markus Stahl (c-3@gmx.net) wrote:
> Yes, I have transfered the old /home tree to the new drive. I just 
> didn't write it, because I thought it would be unnecessary. My 
> problem is, I want to combine the capacity of both HDs. Because 
> when I just mount the new drive to one point (in my case at /home), 
> every data written in this directory will just be saved on the new 
> drive. But I want to use also the capacity of the other disk (at this 
> mountpoint), too. Just how?
> 
> 
> From:           	kmself@ix.netcom.com
> Date sent:      	Thu, 5 Oct 2000 09:15:23 -0700
> To:             	debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:        	Re: how can I add disk space?
> Forwarded by:   	debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:45:46PM +0200, c-3@gmx.net (c-3@gmx.net) wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >=20
> > > I've got a samba-file-server whichs disk resources are getting very=20
> > > low, so I have to add new disk space.
> > > I've already tried to install a new HD and mounted it into /home=20
> > > (where all my samba datas are being saved). But the problem is=20
> > > now all datas are only written on the new HD instead of useing the=20
> > > disk space of both HDs.
> > > There must be a way to use both HDs' disk space, isn't there one?
> > 
> > Post output from:
> > 
> >    $ df
> >    $ mount
> >    $ cat /etc/fstab
> > 
> > Unless you've combined multiple hard drives in some fashion (RAID,
> > striping, mirroring, LVM), a given file is written to only one location.
> > 
> > Did you transfer your old /home tree to the new drive?
> > 
> > What are you hoping to accomplish?
> > 
> > --=20
> > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>     http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
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> 
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