I am currently pre-planning. If it could be done, then I am going to go about searching and purchasing necessary devices in order to do the task. That's why I am asking in the first place. I have a usb device that I can attach for testing now.
Currently I am just running from a live usb. Here is the output of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 384M 6.4M 378M 2% /run
/dev/sdb1 2.9G 2.9G 0 100% /run/live/medium
/dev/loop0 2.6G 2.6G 0 100% /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
tmpfs 1.9G 1.8G 86M 96% /run/live/overlay
overlay 1.9G 1.8G 86M 96% /
tmpfs 1.9G 102M 1.8G 6% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1.9G 436K 1.9G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 384M 5.8M 378M 2% /run/user/1000
Semih Ozlem (semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com) wrote:
> It is a starting point but the problem is really not with whether there is
> enough space to download installation files, for they can be downloaded
> remotely to some other disk. The problem is when installing from the
> downloaded files, the system itself may give an error saying no disk space
> left. The problem is when installing the file I presume some files are
> written in linux directory usually I presume or guess in /bin/ or /sbin so
> that the installed programs become usable. When an external disk is added,
> it is writable and readable but its space does not become incorporated or
> available to /bin /sbin or whatever directories in linux filesystem get
> used... Is it possible to make some changes to filesystem hierarchy so that
> the additional disk becomes available to the system?
You decide where to mount the new partition(s) or logical volume(s).
Start from the beginning, please. Show us the output of "df -h" or
something. Also tell us how the computer is being used (personal
desktop/laptop, server of some kind, etc.). Tell us where the big
files are, or the big collections of files.
Tell us how big each disk is.
>From there, people may be able to give you concrete advice, like "make
a 10 GB partition and mount it as /var", or "mount the entire second
disk as /home".