Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com>, 27 Şub 2021 Cmt, 11:30 tarihinde şunu yazdı:

Sorry I can not read emails very often. No I am not new to linux I have been using it for the past 6 or 7 years starting mostly with ubuntu. I had CENTOS and Ubuntu and debian installed on some machines before. Most of them stopped functioning. Some of them in less than six months.

I am new to the debian users group, because I found out that a user group existed much later. During this time I had a lot of issues with computers. The new computer that I got, originally the store claimed that the insurance on my machine would be invalidated if I installed another operation system on the machine.

The reason for hesitating to install debian right now is simply that the machines may become unusable again, and the invested time and machinepower to installing a machine may end up being wasted. The other reason was the claim that insurance may become invalid which later turned out not to be so, but only after asking the company that sells the computer several times. The third reason is I simply do not at the moment have the time to backup the existing hard drive before installing a new operating system on it, and also that should it become unusable or stop functioning (I had debian installed on a usb 64 gb of size that stopped booting)..

Yes I did figure out that it was lvm2 package that was needed, and lvs is actually one of the internal commands for lvm2 as well so it could be run from the console lvm2 prodives. I am looking into the option of using lvm.

Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>, 26 Şub 2021 Cum, 20:42 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
Charles Curley (charlescurley@charlescurley.com) wrote:
> I also made the mistake of figuring that getting lvs installed would
> help solve the problem. I later realized that getting lvs installed
> would be irrelevant: the fact that it is not installed tells us what
> we needed to know: M. Ozlem isn't running LVM, so the solution to the
> problem is not simply to expand the current volume group (VG) onto the
> new hard drive. There is no current VG to expand.
>
> So where do we go from here?

Yes, all of that is true and useful.

The real problem, though, is that the OP apparently *does not have* a
Debian installation at all. They're just sticking a Live USB thingy
into a computer and running Debian from that. Debian is not installed
on their computer, and they've stated that they have no intention of
installing it on their computer -- at least not on the current hard
drive which is dedicated to Microsoft Windows.

Once we learned that, I pretty much stopped paying attention to anything
else they said.

I'm guessing that their goal is to keep booting from their Live USB
thingy, but to use a second hard drive (which does not exist yet) as
some sort of auxiliary storage that will magically hold whatever they
want to install.

I might suggest that a *better* goal would be to install Debian on the
new hard drive (once it exists), and stop booting the Live system.