I've installed ubuntu server and successfully running my web server in it. Though I wanna know that my system hard disk space is 1TB which is full with contents available in my website. And I wanna add an external 4TB hard drive to my motherboard but the question is how can I increase the hard drive space where LAMP is installed. I mean I wanna merge the Partition something we can do with AOME Partition Manager with Windows... And if there any other alternative please let me know..
Test this:
Assuming that your external drive is /dev/sdc
Create a table of gpt partition and a partition:
sudo -i
gdisk /dev/sdc
The initial output is a warning if the disk is not a new disk or a disk already using GPT:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.7.2
Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
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Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format.
THIS OPERATION IS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE! Exit by typing 'q' if
you don't want to convert your MBR partitions to GPT format!
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Command (? for help):
When starting gdisk on a disk with existing MBR partitions and no GPT, the program displays a message surrounded by asterisks about converting the existing partitions to GPT.
Type ? and you will see a list of available commands:
Command (? for help): ?
b back up GPT data to a file
c change a partition's name
d delete a partition
i show detailed information on a partition
l list known partition types
n add a new partition
o create a new empty GUID partition table (GPT)
p print the partition table
q quit without saving changes
r recovery and transformation options (experts only)
s sort partitions
t change a partition's type code
v verify disk
w write table to disk and exit
x extra functionality (experts only)
? print this menu
Type n to add a new partition and XXXT to give the partition a size.
Partition number (1-128, default 1): 1
First sector (34-15728606, default = 4605952) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Last sector (4605952-15728606, default = 15728606) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +4T
Current type is 'Linux filesystem'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): 8300
Changed type of partition to 'Linux filesystem
The w writes your changes to disk whilst q command exits without saving your changes:
Command (? for help): w
Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT).
The operation has completed successfully.
As gdisk creates partitions not filesystems, you will need to format each of your partitions
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdc1
Moves files, usually housed in /var/www to the new partition
mkdir /media/newwww
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/newwww
cp -dpR /var/www/* /media/newwww/
mv /var/www /var/oldwww
mkdir /var/www
Get the UUID
blkid /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1: UUID="c676ae51-cb6f-4c0e-b4a9-76850aafa1d6" TYPE="ext4"
Edit the file /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab
In the file add this line:
UUID=c676ae51-cb6f-4c0e -xxxx-xxxxxxxx /var/www ext4 defaults 0 2
Control + O, save file. Control + X, close nano.
umount /media/newwww
mount /dev/sdc1 /var/www
If everything works correctly deletes the old directory:
sudo -i
rm /var/oldwww
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