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mscoxoh
March 27th, 2009, 02:33 PM
I've found several posts/docs that deal with adding a second drive, but they all assume the user just wants to add a new partition. Can I increase my existing space/partition? I'm running 7.10 server and I'm only using it for Squid/DansGuardian, and for Samba to backup household PCs' hard drives (Mac TimeMachine, etc). I'm not concerned about "best practices" in spanning partitions (unless there's some big performance hit) because I can rebuild the thing easily if a drive fails and no data is lost. Here is how I'm partitioned now:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 31 248976 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 32 60801 488135025 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 32 60801 488134993+ 8e Linux LVM

Real basic, right? I'm going to add a 1TB drive along with the existing 500gb drive and just want to make all the /home directories see 1.5tb of space. Can I do this, and how? Thanks!

Michael
(I only have *very* basic linux skills, BTW)