At 10:49 PM 12/21/1998 -0600, you wrote:
>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
>Owner / Manager
>NCC Internet
>http://www.nccinternet.com
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>"Who died and made you root@everywhere????"
>
Hi Matt,
If you are planning on using the new hard drive just for
news, mount it as a partation off of /var/spool/news. But before
you do, you will want to mount it temperarly someplace else, and
move the surrent contence of /var/spool/news to it. Probably the
best place to mount it is to create a directory off of /mnt for it.
I normaly use /mnt/temp as a mount point for thing like this.
After you copy all news, delete the contence of news, and mount the
new drive as news. You should realy be in the single user mode when
you do this. (telinit 1, or boot to run level one after installing
the drive.) I am assuming you know how to partation, and create an
ext2 partation on the new drive and you know how to copy from one
partation to another...
Mikkel
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