Dear All,

Here we using FTP server in redhat EL5. Almost our harddisk space get completely full. Hence i connected additional harddisk to migrate with my existing hard disk. My ftp data are all stored in /data/ftp. i need to extend my harddisk space with help of another harddisk. I don't know how to proceed to increase my ftp data space. Please help to excute the process without affecting my data.

Hi Jai_nagarajan,

Are you using a LVM based partition configuration?

jai_nagarajan, maybe you inadvertitely clicked on the REPORT button instead of QUOTE. Here is your reply:

i am not use LVM before. Suppose we configured LVM it can help to over come this issue

Hi jai_nagarajan,

The main reason why I asked this question is that, with an LVM setup its really easy to extend your current volumes.

But you do not at the moment. An alternative might be, if you can afford some downtime. Is to reconfigure the fstab in such a way that the new hard disk becomes a sub folder in your FTP data configuration. And move the data around to the new hard drive. Or perhaps using an external hard drive to copy the data to temporarily before you mount your new hard drive. I am sure that there are a lot of different ways you could go about doing this.

While LVM means it is easy to extend partitions, it is not as easy to reduce those partitions without adding another drive. I recommend mounting the new hard drive as a directory inside the current ftp directory.