On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:44:55PM -0800, panda wrote: > Lou Losee wrote: > > >Hi Anita, > > > >* Anita Rohani <anitahussain@yahoo.com> [2004-01-04 23:30]: > > > > > >>Hi > >> > >>A few hard disk partitions on our current Debian > >>system are close to becoming full. I would like to > >>install an addtional hard disk and extend the > >>partitions on the current disk to the new disk. Is it > >>possible to do so and are there any instructions > >>avaliable on how to add and configure additional hard > >>disks on Debian? > >> > >> > >> > >I do not think you can actually extend the existing partitions - that is > >make them span the old and the new disks. However. you can install the > >new disk, use fdisk to create partitons on it and then move the data > >from some of the existing partitions to the new disk. Then you can > >mount the new partitons. > > > >This way you could, for instance, create a larger /home or /var or /usr > >etc. on the new disk to replace the partitons on the old disk. Once > >this is done, you could delete the old partions and use a tool such as > >parted or QTparted to resize the partitions on the old disk and make > >them larger also. > > > >HTH > > > >Lou > > > > > > > > > Hi > > Actually her question brings up an interesting point. Suppose this > needed to be done in a big corporation where it is necessary to maintain > some level of service and the question of scalability is a very > important one. > > They would prefer some means of doing the same adding disks to the > system to allow for greater storage with minimal disruption. It would be > really costly if they had to resort to something like copy everything > and then resize. > > Couldn't something like RAID spanning being used? I think this would be overkill for a big corporation's goal of 'scalability' though. (At least for client desktops.)
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