Hard Drive Setup Question

viper2pt0 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 98

Ok guys, here is my question...i am still fairly new with gentoo, but i have sucessfully created a movie server for myself. I have one 250 gig hdd, with 3 partitions hda1 (boot) hda2 (swap) and hda3 (root).........to store the movies i made a user called "movies" and im just putting all the movies in /home/movies/ then i put samba on, and through my windows machine i "mapped a network drive" to that directory. everything works awesome. but i kinda ran into a problem....what happens when my hard drive fills up?...if i throw another hard drive in there, do i just make one partition on it? like a root partition being hdb1?....and then....how do i get to it to put more movies on it?....i know it wont be like raid, so i cant just keep puttin movies in the /home/movies directory and have them go on the second hard drive...so how would i go about doing this?...im sorry if it sounds very complicated...thanks in advance

db_404 · Guru Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 336

Assuming you want to use the whole of the new drive for movies, you would just partition it as one primary partition, format it with whatever file system you chose (e.g. ext3 or reiserfs etc.).

Then you could add a directory to your /home/movies directory (for example /home/movies/moremovies) and mount your new drive there e.g

EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1742 Location: Kentucky

Sounds like a tedious system, but heh.

Just make your /mnt/movies directory. Your computer should recognize whatever hard disk you put in as /dev/hdb1 and linux will mount it as long as it's formatted with mount command.
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viper2pt0 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 98

ok sweet..thanks alot..that basically takes care of what i need u guys rock

viper2pt0 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 98

lbrtuk · l33t Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 910

No, he means mount it to /mnt/movies.

You really don't have to create another user for the movies. Just mount it at /mnt/movies and let all the users access it.

ectospasm · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:30 pm Post subject:

If you ever think that you might need more space for a partition, you should check into LVM (Logical Volume Manager). The Gentoo guide on LVM is really good. I've been able to increase the size of my /home and /usr filesystems, while they were mounted, with absolutely no hiccups. There's also the capability of shrinking filesystems with the same ease, though I've never done that before.

And none of this requires RAID or anything. I've only got one harddrive that I use, and LVM has been a godsend.
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viper2pt0 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 98

ok cool, this gave me a good idea of what to do...i just have one more question....im pretty sure the answer is no, but i figured hey, ya never know..... basically is there anyway without a hardware raid, to have 2 hard drives share a directory?....kinda like a software raid? i dont think there is, but then maybe in the magical world of linux there is...i dunno..but thanks anway

ectospasm · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:12 am Post subject: