Hi

I run a webserver and my /var/www/html/uploads directory is eating my primary hard disk space.

I am looking into buying a 1TB additional HD and install this to my server.

How can I point my new hard drive to the /var/www/html/uploads directory and use my new hard disk as storage?

Many Thanks

Which distro do you have on your web server?

The general way would be to mount it. Look at the utility "mount" and its manual page to see how to do that, and try it manually. Then once you have all the options and location settled, you can add it to fstab, see the fstab manual page for details of that file. Inside fstab you can refer to the partition by device name or by UUID. The latter is more precise. The utility "blkid" can tell you the UUID of a partition.

You can also make more than one partition on your new drive and mount them in different places if more space is needed elsewhere, too.

>>>How can I point my new hard drive to the /var/www/html/uploads directory and use my new hard disk as storage?

Actually you have this backwards. You point the /var directory to the new partition UUID or text label in your fstab. If you use lvm you would use links such as /dev/vgname/lvname where the names are strings you specify.

As the previous poster said your first decision is whether you want to use the whole 1 TB drive for the /var directory or reserve space for other directories in the future. I personally would leave some space unallocated for future use.

>>> Inside fstab you can refer to the partition by device name or by UUID.

There are more options than this. You can specify a filesystem label with either MBR or GPT partitioning. If using GPT partitioning you can specify a text partition label.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab

As described in the page above the four options are:

Filesystem text label
Filesystem UUID
GPT partition text label
GPT partition UUID