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1. It might be useful to make a shorter, more printer-friendly version. Maybe as pdf?
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2. Another suggestion is to replace the names bigdisk, mp3 and hdc1 with variables that the user can change to fit their situation.
 
<br>These variables will then change the later paths automatically.
 
<br> I think that would increase the success-rate when using it.
 
 
 
3. Maybe combine suggestion 1 and 2, so the printable version show the customized paths? Would that be doable? How?
 
 
 
4. Is it really necessary to go to runlevel 1 (with telinit 1)?
 
<br>It's a petty that I can't do these actions thru an ssh-client (copy and paste-ability).
 
 
 
[http://wiki.contribs.org/User:Per /Per]
 
 
 
Doesn't the CONSOLE > MANAGE DISK REDUNDANCY already take care of this automatically? If so, I don't know why this HOWTO is needed. http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid#Adding_another_Hard_Drive_Later
 
 
 
== Another Option ==
 
 
 
Not recommended way as if you loose the drive you loose your system but you are in a world of hurt following these instructions and loose the drive as well.  In all of these commands you would replace {drive} with the device you are working with (hda,hdc,sda,sdb,etc).
 
 
 
fdisk /dev/{drive}
 
 
 
Do the n,p,1 stuff.  Then do T (change partition type), 1 (partition 1), 8e (Linux LVM).  You can then write and save the partion.
 
 
 
Instead of formatting the drive do the following:
 
 
 
pvcreate /dev/{drive}1
 
 
 
The 1 at the end specifies the partition you created in fdisk.
 
 
 
Add the new partition to the volume group with:
 
 
 
vgextend main /dev/{drive}1
 
 
 
And check that you have new available space (it should show total size and free space):
 
 
 
vgs
 
 
 
Increase the root logical volume with:
 
 
 
lvresize -L +{space available} main/root
 
 
 
And finally increase the filesystem with:
 
 
 
ext2online -C0 /dev/main/root
 
 
 
Also see [http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid#Upgrading_the_Hard_Drive_Size Upgrading the Hard Drive Size] in the Raid article.  The lvresize and ext2online commands can be used to take advantage of all of the available space.
 
 
 
By following these instructions you aren't just limiting space to a specific mount point/ibay but make it available to the entire system.  You also don't have to mess with or tweak quotas.  The space just becomes available.
 
 
 
If you are using a clean drive that is new to the system you shouldn't have to reboot or telinit 1 either.
 

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