Re: Needs More Space (Slave Servers)

>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have this configuration of a Webhosting Server.
>> >
>> > RedHat 7.2
>> > AuthenticAMD
>> > AMD Duron(tm) processor
>> > 1001.760 MHz
>> > cache size: 64 KB
>> > Memory: 503580k/516032k available (1153k kernel code, 9892k
>> reserved, 974k data, 160k init, 0k highmem)
>> > Linux server 2.4.18-27.7.x #1 Fri Mar 14 05:51:23 EST 2003 i686
>> unknown hda: ST360021A, ATA DISK drive
>> >
>> > Current Disk Usage
>> > Filesystem            Size      Used     Avail     Use%     Mounted
>> on /dev/hda5             2.9G      1.1G      1.7G      38%     /
>> > /dev/hda1             45M      16M       27M      37%     /boot
>> /dev/hda7             36G       33G       1.6G      96%     /home
>>
>> Why not just add another drive to the system?
>
> Adding New drive will create a New Partion I suppose. I want to extend
> the space on /home by adding the New drive but it should show and use
> the total of both the drives space as a Single /home partion.
> Am i sounding Correct?

That's a pretty hardcore way of doing things. Unless you have a reason
that you need one partition (huge database file, for example), I would
just install the second drive and name it something like /web, and then
make a symlink from /web to /home. Shortest distacne between 2 points,
right?

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