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