Increasing Avaiable Hard Drive Space

Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:16:55 -0500

Greetings. I have what would seem to be a straightforward question, but I get a different answer depending on who I ask/what book I read, so I thought I would pose the question here.

I have a computer that is running Slackware linux on a 6.4 GB hard drive, partitioned with 64 MB swap and the rest mounted on /. This box handles many things, including being a news server using the "suck" method to pull newsgroups. Recently, I have had a tremendous leap in articles being sucked from upstream onto my server for users to see. (yeah, those kind). I have had a jump from 12% HD usage to 46% HD usage in just over a month, and it is continuing to climb rather steadily. In an effort to head off an obvious problem, that of running out of HD space, I am trying to decide what to do. Should I add another hard drive and either make the partition span both drives, or, mount the new HD, (a 13.3 GB BTW) as a new partition (but how, since the HD in place is already mounted as /,) OR.... Attempt to use a program such as the new version of Drive Copy (by Powerquest) that I have in an attempt to move the entire contents to the new drive. This later method would seem to be the best option, but as I know that it can increase the partitions for FAT,FAT32, NTFS, HPFS etc.. but it does NOT mention ext2fs. I believe that it will copy byte for byte the data for ext2fs, but, how would I get fdisk to recognize the new space, if that is even possible? This is a production machine, handling mail, dial-up access, etc. and I cannot take a chance of hosing it. Is there anything anybody can recommend, short of reinstalling the entire system? (and if that is the only option, how would you recommend doing it to minimize downtime?)  I have been working with linux for about a year, but I do not pretend to even be close to an expert. I am looking for ideas /suggestions / pointers / places to look for info/ --from those of you who are experts.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Matt Nelson, N5TKN
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