Adding a hard drive

[Brian Densmore]

[note: This may not be accurate to your situation, but I'll try]

I would recommend option 1.

 Nano HOWTO (or better hints):
   1. install, fdisk, and mkfs disk (ext2,ext3,reiserfs).
   2. mount new partition(s) to /var/www/html/[hosted domain(s)]

   or if you need to copy stuff from the old partition first
   2a. mount new partition(s) to /mnt/[hosted domain(s)]
   3a. copy data, umount and remount to /var/www/html...

   or you could use LVM to manage the disks
   2b. see LVM howto, I could look it up and quote it here, but
       it's better from the source
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO-1.html
       this is the best solution because then you can add and remove
disk space
       to any directory tree you want to and never worry about losing
data because
       you mounted a new partition over an old one.
[caution: You cannot mount a new partition on /var and still be able to
read anything
 that was in the /var tree. It will mount over top of it and "hide" all
the old files. 
 Without knowing your partition scheme it is difficult to be more
specific. But there 
 are lots of ways to add space to the /var filesystem with the new disk]

Option 2 would be a DNS entry not an apache thing; yes quite easy to do,
just add a DNS entry for the site.
   

Brian

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Pratt [mailto:mtpratt1971 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:06 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Adding a hard drive
> 
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> This is what I want to do:
> 
> I am in the process of hosting two domains and I am looking 
> at these two 
> options
> 
> Option 1:
> I am running RH 7.2 and I want to add a hard drive to it. 
> Correct me if I'm 
> wrong, Once installed I run fdisk to set it up. This is the 
> tricky part I 
> want to add mor space to my /var/www/html/ directory is it 
> possible to 
> assign the partition as /var without losing any data and basically 
> increasing its size?  If not how can I configure apache to 
> point to the new 
> partion without modifying apache too much?
> 
> Option 2:
> 
> Create a new RH 7.0 server system and have apache on the 
> current system 
> setup with the new additionl domain but when the users goto 
www.myhost.com 
it gets forwarded to the new internal system of 192.168.0.7. What is the

easiest means of doing this?

Im thinking Option two would be the easiest means of hosting the second 
domain.

Thanks for your help!

Mike

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