Adding more space ?

[liquidz]

Hello,

Currently, Plesk8.01 is installed in a virtual machine running Debian 3.1. It work fine. But it installed under a partition of only 7Go. I have installed another virtual partition of 200Go, formatted it (fdisk + mkfs.ext3), mounted it under /data/ (a folder on / ) with the fstab. I see it when I do df -h. So this part is working well.

What I want to do is how to put everything related to plesk in this folder/drive. I can see the partition but what I want is to have plesk used it. I have configured apache2 to use /data/www/ but I need to used this folder for everything. I know how to move my databases to this folder too but Im wondering how I can use /data/ for everything ?

Thanks.

 

[kassah]

you should be able to copy the files within the old partition over. You may need to reinstall grub or lilo on the new partition but that should be it.

then you can even drop the old VM Drive.

once it's copied, change fstab to put data as / (and you may need to change /boot/grub/menu.lst

on your kernel line it says:
root=/dev/hda1
change that to reflect your new root location.

Thanks,
Will

 

[liquidz]

Thanks but that if for when you want to reinstall everything. What I want is to have my Debian OS on a separate partition and my Plesk files (not the installation of Plesk tought) but the the web pages and databases on a separate drive, so if my system crash I will just have to reinstall my os and plesk on my first drive and after that reconfigure plesk to use my new 200Gb drive. I do this beacause I will be easier for me to do a disaster recovery.

I don't know if you figure what I want to do, if it's not clear just ask more questions.

Thanks !

 

[kassah]

Ahh...

Hrrm, well just off hand, you'd have to transfer all services that stored customer information. (Off hand for my server)
-MySQL/PostgreSQL db's
-Web Files (and configs)
-MailMan Archives
-Mail Files (and configs)
-Spamassasin Trainings? (have no clue where those are)

I'm sure some of the other modules have stuff you want to backup.

I'd try symlinks from their directories to /data/

Just make sure you document for yourself somewhere what symlinks are where so you can restore them easily.

Tahnks,
Will

 

[liquidz]

ok I see, not an easy one thought !

Well I will give it a try with the symlinks.

Thanks