Second HDD with DA?

[eSiK]

Hi.
I have 2 hard disks 250GB both. I know that one day the first one will run out of space... What then? How I can mount the second one to work with DA and place new accounts on it when the first will be full? Is this even possible?
Thx in advance for your help

 

[rohit]

not sure abt the exact procedure, but one of many could be to mount the directories that are used much to the new HDD

you can mount the /home partition on to the new HDD and also the /var/mail too

 

[iceuk626]

You can acctually use raid for this. RAID 0 will do the job just fine. it uses a method called striping. Striping takes a single chunk of data and spreads it across multiple drives.

Raid 0 is not really a valid type of raid due to the fact it offers no redundancy for the data it stores in the array but it is a resonable solution to your problem ( providing you have some sort of raid support on your system).

 

[floyd]

You can also use LVM. LVM will span a partition across multiple drives.

 

[nobaloney]

Both RAID and LVM require setup when the server is first built.

Of the two, LVM appears to be the direction most systems are going to for the future.

However, if it's already too late to do that, and if you won't get enough space by moving /home to the new drive, along with it's contents...

Then you can setup DA to use the new drive for all future domains. You can read how elsewhere in these forums.

Jeff