On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:22, Kapil Khanna wrote: > I recently installed Redhat on an old P2 laptop. It works like a champ and i > am extremely pleased. However the laptop only comes with 2.5 GB of hard drive > space. Using the system over the last couple of weeks has the drive at 60% of > its capacity. Thats making me anxious that someday i will have to deal with > space issues. > I was successfully able to map a Windows file system from another machine on > my network via Samba on /mnt. > I have always wondered if i can mount this additional windows file system on / > (root) rather than a sub directory of /. That way i can add virtual hard drive > space to that Linux box. In fact i tried doing this once but was unsuccessful > with a message saying the device/resource was busy. > Any ideas on how i can get around this problem? I have thought about symblins > from the linux file system directories to the samba share, what other options > can i explore? If i install an external hard drive will that add space to my / > (root) file system? > A df on my machine reveals the following: > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 2885216 1622088 1116568 60% / > /dev/hda1 50723 5967 42137 13% /boot > none 47188 0 47188 0% /dev/shm >
If the box is always going to be on the network there is allsorts of stuff you can do. I create a /install dir on most of my servers and nfs mount the partition that keeps my installation tree and updated rpms on there. From the machines standpoint it looks like I have a 20 GB partition on /install for each of my 4 production servers but it is really the same one on a totally seperate box that also happens to be the gateway to our test/installation subnet. If you are used to the MS way of doing things where every drive is a separate drive letter and thus hard to integrate additional space requirements into then it is a little hard to get your head around. For instance when I first set up my first linux/samba file server I had a 5Gig partition for /pub. It did not take too long before I got in a bind and had to put /pub/Software on its own 5GB chunk. When I ran into /pub/Software/linux_software needing additional space I went to the /install deal above on a big (at the time) ide drive on a separate box. Nowadays with LVM which I had the wonderful experience of getting paid to set up for my brothers firm you can add aonther harddrive to a box and add the space anywhere you want ad still keep the logical partitions I was used to. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
