Adding a harddrive

[E-Oreo]

I am in the process of upgrading my server to include a second harddrive, I was wondering if I can configure DA to use both harddrives so that I can choose which to put user accounts on when I create them. If that option is not available, is there a way I can configure DA to use the second (larger) harddrive for the home directories of users?

 

[jmstacey]

You can't choose between the two hard drives when creating an account, but you can reconfigure the add_user tool to create the home directories on the new HardDrive/Partition.

 

[E-Oreo]

Re

If I reconfigure the adduser command will it cause any problems for the user accounts that already exist? Can I leave these accounts in place, or will I need to move them to the new harddrive also?

Will there be any problems when I go to delete user accounts if I reconfigure adduser?

Would it be easier to simply mount the new harddrive at /home/ and move all the existing data at /home to the new harddrive?

Sorry, lots of questions but I'm just trying to figure out my best course.

 

[nobaloney]

You can reconfigure adduser if you want. It will not affect pre-existing users.

Most systems by default just link adduser to useradd, and to reconfigure it you'd write your own adduser script.

deluser gets its user information from the /etc/passwd (and other) files, so it can delete any user, no matter how it was created.

What I don't know is how any of this fits into DA.

Jeff

 

[E-Oreo]

sorry, I must have hit new topic rather than post reply. The original thread is here: http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9513

 

[nobaloney]

I fixed that .

But I'm not sure if "adduser" is what the poster mean by the add-user tool.

Jeff