[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Mon Sep 5 02:53:03 UTC 2005


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 
> On 5/9/2005, "Tom Schutzer-Weissmann" <trmsw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >- symlinks
> >- grep
> >- the loopback device
> >- modprobe
> 
> mount!  It's really one of the big things that *nix does better.  Run
> out of space in /home/jsmith/foo?  Slot in a new hard drive, copy the
> data across then mount it over the top.  Hey presto, more space for
> /home/jsmith/foo without having to update anything pointing to it.

That's soooo old school ;-P  All the cools kids use LVM now, have a
single logical volume on /, and add more storage to the volume group,
and live-resize the filesystem to utilize it :-)

Dan.
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