Re: Increasing Partition size.

[Sam Bashton <sam@ipsupport.co.uk>]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:15:08PM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote:
> We are in the process of testing our own NAS box (Compaq with Smart
> Array 6400).
> 
> The Compaq box has a capacity of 14 Hotswap HD's - but due to budget
> restraints, we have initially only purchased 5 drives.
> 
> Current data partition is ~409Gb - but we will be wanting to add
> additional storage(To the data partition) as demand dictates.

I'd suggest you have a look at LVM/LVM2.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

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Sam Bashton
Systems Administrator
IP Support