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Old 09-09-2005, 07:00 AM   #1
rubensilva
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Samba - Increasing Partition


Hello all!

I have Mandrake Linux instaled on a 80Gb HDD.
I have a samba partion created, but the size of that partion is 5.8Gb.
That partition is created on the root.
How can I increase the size of that partition witout loosing any data?

Thanks
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Old 09-09-2005, 08:05 AM   #2
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Point your Samba Share elsewhere

I assume when you say you have 80 gigs on you harddrive that you still have a large group of that left, correct?

Well, to give Samba more room is easy. You have a larger partition, say 70 gigs available? Go into your smb.conf file (located in /etc/samba) as root and modify the path of the file share to a folder on the larger partition. Example: /=5.6 gigs, /home=70 gigs
/etc/samba/smb.conf change this line under the share: path = /home/{the new location}

So, in the smb.conf, change the path to a folder a little larger. Then, in Linux, copy all of the files in the old location to the new location. Your Windows won't know the difference!

SIDENOTE: do this under the command line. Don't know how well it would work in the GUI, but I assume it is possible.

Last edited by issinho; 09-09-2005 at 08:06 AM.
 
  


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