On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:13:12 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> You can always add more filesystem space later. It's easier if you're using
> LVM but that isn't required. You just build another filesystem on the new
> drive after it's installed and mount it into your filesystems, at the
> appropriate mount point.
Don't you have to do things like copy the old filesystem content to the new
filesystem (possibly using a temporary mount point for one of those), then move
the new filesystem to the old mount point? (Maybe that is only if they are
"system" filesystems (e.g., /var, /etc, /home ...?)
I answered that in my 2nd paragraph, which you see right below this text. One step at a time for a newer sysadmin.
> Where is that? Depends on your needs. What if it's a critical filesystem
> that you can't unmount while the OS is up? Or what if you need to copy a
> critical fs to the new drive and reboot using the new, bigger copy? If
> either is the case, write back and we'll pick it up from there.