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ola

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Hi,

im running DA on centos 6.5.
i have succesfully mounted an extra disk.
My first disk is a ssd and i want to use that for home
i want to use this extra disk for storing files which can be downloaded from existing websites on /home.

is this possible ?
how to do this?

Regards.
O
 
smtalk said:
Please check http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=451. However, if you would like to do that for specific folders in public_html only, a simple symlink would do the trick :)
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thanks for your reply.

i dont want new sites to be on the new disk
i want all sites on my ssd and i want files for download on the new disk.

step 1 is a bit confusing
i can do this for the current home (/) without errors.
but as soon as i do i for the new drive /data
i get this:

http://screencast.com/t/MftkSycAVSRz


Step 2 is done

step 3 not sure. i dont want new sites on /data

step 4 ? i dont want a new home
 
It appears you've mounted your drive as /mnt/data and yet you're trying to access it as /data.

If you want to access it as data then you should unmount it, change /etc/fstab to mount it as /data, and then remount it.

Jeff
 
thanks all.

but i really dont know how to do this, im a nono with centos.

in etc/fstab i dont see anything related to mnt/data or /data

when i mount /dev/vdb/ to /home/username/domains/domain.com/files/
i see files with DA and ftp but i can't write anything to it because its permitted..
mount with -w doesnt make a diiference
chmod doesnt work either

all i want is an extra disk

any ideas?
regards
O
 
zEitEr said:
chown -R username:username /home/username/domains/domain.com/files/
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Thanks!

that is working.

one more question.
the new drive is now available from websitye xxx
can i mount the same drive also to other websites on same server?

same procedure?
 
can i mount the same drive also to other websites on same server?
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Yes.

same procedure?
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NO, unless you want to share the directory content.


If you want different content, then you should

1. Move content of /home/username/domains/domain.com/files/ to /home/username/domains/domain.com/files.moved
2. Umount /home/username/domains/domain.com/files/
3. Mount /dev/vdb as /home/vdb
4. Create directories:

Code: 
mkdir /home/vdb/username1
mkdir /home/vdb/username2
mkdir /home/vdb/username3
mkdir /home/vdb/usernameN

Code: 
chmod 710 /home/vdb/username1
chmod 710 /home/vdb/username2
chmod 710 /home/vdb/username3
chmod 710 /home/vdb/usernameN

Code: 
chown username1:username1 /home/vdb/username1
chown username2:username2 /home/vdb/username2
chown username3:username3 /home/vdb/username3
chown usernameN:usernameN /home/vdb/usernameN

for all users which you want to allow files on it.

5. mount directories with mount --bind to homedirs:

Code: 
mount --bind /home/vdb/username1 /home/username1/domains/domain.com/files
mount --bind /home/vdb/username2 /home/username2/domains/domain.com/files
mount --bind /home/vdb/username3 /home/username3/domains/domain.com/files
mount --bind /home/vdb/usernameN /home/usernameN/domains/domain.com/files

Code: 
chown username1:username1 /home/username1/domains/domain.com/files
chown username2:username2 /home/username2/domains/domain.com/files
chown username3:username3 /home/username3/domains/domain.com/files
chown usernameN:usernameN /home/usernameN/domains/domain.com/files

6. update /etc/fstab to keep changes

7. More actions are required if you need system disk quotas on /dev/vdb enabled.
 
perfect! thanks again.

after unmounting and remount i get this:

# mount: mount point /home/vdb does not exist
bash: mount:: command not found

i created a directory /home/dvb
and after that i was able to mount /dev/vdb /home/dvb

is that correct?

regards
 
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ola said:
i created a directory /home/dvb
and after that i was able to mount /dev/vdb /home/dvb

is that correct?
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Yes, that's correct.

Now you need to add:

Code: 
/dev/vdb /home/vdb ext4 defaults,usrquota,grpquota,errors=continue 1 1

and for every user a line of the following kind:

Code: 
/home/vdb/username1   /home/username1/domains/domain.com/files   none    defaults,usrquota,grpquota,bind   0 0

into /etc/fstab
 
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zEitEr said:
Yes, that's correct.

Now you need to add:

Code: 
/dev/vdb /home/dvb ext4 defaults,usrquota,grpquota,errors=continue 1 1

and for every user a line of the following kind:

Code: 
/home/vdb/username1   /home/username1/domains/domain.com/files   none    defaults,usrquota,grpquota   0 0

into /etc/fstab
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Many thanks for all the help!
 
Typo fixed, that should be (bind option was missing):

Code: 
/home/vdb/username1   /home/username1/domains/domain.com/files   none    defaults,usrquota,grpquota,bind   0 0
 
zEitEr said:
Typo fixed, that should be (bind option was missing):

Code: 
/home/vdb/username1   /home/username1/domains/domain.com/files   none    defaults,usrquota,grpquota,bind   0 0
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hi,

all is working fine untill i reboot my server, the mount to vdb is then lost.

this is my fstab.
Do i need to add some lines?

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue Jan 3 23:26:00 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_server-lv_root / ext4 defaults,usrquota,grpquota,errors=continue 1 1
UUID=c326a8c4-738b-408d-bd0b-5ea9150f53b1 /boot ext4 defaults,errors=continue 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_server-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/vdb /home/dvb ext4 defaults,usrquota,grpquota,errors=continue 1 1
/home/vdb/username1 /home/username1/domains/domain.com/files none defaults,usrquota,grpquota,bind 0 0
/home/vdb/username2 /home/username2/domains/domain.com/files none defaults,usrquota,grpquota,bind 0 0

"/etc/fstab" 19L, 863C


* username and domains are replaced by correct settings

Regards,
O
 
you've got a typo there:

Code: 
/dev/vdb /home/dvb ext4 defaults,usrquota,grpquota,errors=continue 1 1

/home/dvb
 
If you want those partitions be accessable via a web-server, you need to mount them to
/home/username1/domains/domain.com/public_html/files
 
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