[Cialug] Adding a drive to expand /home directory

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:

> I mounted the drive as a subdirectory beneath /home called /home/ 
> extended.
> The problem is that although I can see the extended directory by  
> using the ls command when I look at the /home directory from the  
> file share I do not see the additional capacity of the drive.  The  
> new drive should add twice as much space as was available with the  
> original directory on the first drive.



If you're talking about the free space displayed on a client system  
that has mounted /home via SMB/CIFS it probably does work, it just  
doesn't report free space the way you think it should. The "free  
space" indication will always show the amount of space available on  
the drive at the root level of the network volume, even if there are  
other drives mounted at a lower level. From the point of view a client  
machine the network mount is a single volume and all folders in it  
have the same mount of free space -- it has no way to tell they are on  
different drives at the server end.

It shouldn't hurt anything though, other than your display of free  
space. You should still be able to copy things in and out of the home/ 
extended folder even if they are larger than what the volume reports  
for free space.

If /home is already on a separate partition you could use LVM to join  
the two disks into a single logical unit on the server side and avoid  
the whole issue.

	Zach

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