View source for Moving your images directory/Adding Storage to the Images directory

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==Overview==
If you need to add storage capacity to your images directory or you would like to replace your /images directory with a larger capacity array/hard drive here are the basic steps.  We are going through the steps on Ubuntu, but they should be very similar on Fedora.

==Prepping the new disk==
*Determine the device node by running 
 sudo fdisk -l
*Locate the entry the matches your device you are adding for something like /dev/sdX where X is a letter.

*Make sure the device is formatted with ext3/4.  Your should see a partion listed like this:
    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/sdX1               1      121601   976760001   83  Linux
*If you have a partition that isn't either ext3/4, you will need to delete them with the following commands.  '''Note: This WILL make the data on the partition unreadable!'''
 sudo fdisk /dev/sdX
 p
*Take note the number of partitions you need to delete and for each of them do:
 d
 [parition number]
*When you are done removing the partitions type:
 w
 q
*At this point if you don't have any partitions on the disk we can create it with the following commands:
 sudo fdisk /dev/sdX
 n
 1
 p
 1
 [enter]
 [enter]
 t
 83
 w

*Now we can format our partition with:

 mkfs.ext3  /dev/sdX1

Please note the 1 at the end.

*Now we are going to get the UUID of the device using:

 sudo blkid /dev/sdX1

record the UUID value

==Moving images folder to new storage==

*Move and recreate the image directory with:

 sudo mv /images /images1
 sudo mkdir /images

*Now we want to setup /etc/fstab to make sure the device gets mount during boot up.

 sudo nano /etc/fstab

or 

 sudo gedit /etc/fstab

*Add the following line to the bottom

 UUID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    /images      ext3 defaults 0 0

*Mount it with:

 sudo mount -a

*Check that is mounted with:

 mount

*Copy your images back to your new directory 

 sudo cp -Rf /images1/* /images/

*Change permissions with:

 suco chown -R fog /images
 sudo chmod -R 755 /images
 sudo chmod -R 777 /images/dev

If you want to just add capacity to your images directory, you could instead mount your new device as a subfolder of the /images directory.  In this case your wouldn't need to move the original directory to /images1, and your fstab line would look like:

 UUID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX    /images/newdisk      ext3 defaults 0 0