[Cialug] Adding Drive problem

[Tom Sellers]

I am going to try to respond to all the responses thus far in this one message.

Thanks to all who have responded to me even though I do not fully understand all the responses!

First off I am using Samba to share the information from the server.  After going back and looking closely at the config for Samba I think I may have found one problem.  I haven't looked at this for quite some time and the actual location of the Samba share isn't quite where I thought it was.

As for using LVM, I'm not familiar with that.  I doubt that it is part of my existing system due to its age.  This is a Red Hat 7.0 system that I set up many moons ago.  It was basically a standard install and then Samba was added after that.

I don't think bringing the computer to the UG meeting is an option since it is kind of pieced together and not fully contained in a case.  

When I look at the SMB share from another computer I do not see the /extended directory under the share.  That is likely due to the first issue stated above.

Here is the DF information I get.

[root at tomcansv public]# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8               256667     46744    196671  20% /
/dev/hda1                23302      2476     19623  12% /boot
/dev/hda6              4609268   1052140   3322984  25% /home
/dev/hda5              4609268   4032816    342308  93% /usr
/dev/hda7               256667     19478    223937   9% /var
/dev/hdb1              9614116        20   9125724   1% /home/extended
[root at tomcansv public]#

The new drive is the bottom of the list /dev/hdb1.

I will correct the mount location to match the SMB file share and then give this another look.  

Maybe I am just wasting my time since this is not an urgent thing and I should likely try to set something newer up to do the same thing.  I just thought that I had the other drive lying around and figured it would be a good stop gap until I had time to do something else more permanent.

I thought with linux that you could simply add additional storage capacity by adding another drive and sharing its space in the directory where it was needed.  I guess it is not quite that simple!