Storage of a single user on a separate disk

[ATN Networks]

Hi All,

One of our users like to get a lot of storage on his single user account on a shared DirectAdmin server. We like to offer a complete harddisk to safe his storage but this needs to be reachable via a frontend website and FTP.

Can somebody tell me how I can assign a other location for user data for one DirectAdmin account? Other DirectAdmin accounts has to read and write their data on the main disk like normal.

 

[ATN Networks]

I allready found an option to mount the disk to /home/user/.

 

[smtalk]

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1590

 

[scsi]

If you want to do it for one user then just create the user as normal.

Then:

cp -rfp /home/user /newfolder

Then:

rm -rf /home/user
ln -s /newfolder/user /home/user

Should work good. You can test it.

 

[frankc420]

Just keep in mind, if your going as far as dedicating a drive to the customer, if you keep his data in /home and you have backups setup for all users in /home, you will backup his entire drive to your current backup location.

Hope that makes sense.