Location of images
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@george1421 What I want to do, on disk 1 only system, will not have images. Only the images will be on the disc. Once I tried to do it but it generated permission errors
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@mikmatcr How familiar are you with linux? Linux is not like windows in that it doesn’t have the concept of different disks (i.e.
etc). In linux (UNIX) it has a single file system, where you can connect different disks (or network shares) to different folders (directory mount points). You can traverse between disks just like changing directories.So if you want to have disk 1 as the system disk and disk 2 for images that can be done pretty easy (relatively), with no changes to FOG’s configuration.
The basic steps are to create a disk partition on disk 2 (/dev/sdb), then format it. Then connect that disk to a temporary location in the directory and move the contents of your /images directory to this new disk. Then finally unmount the disk temporarily and then reconnect the new disk to the /images directory.
I think I have a step by step tutorial on this. Let me check.
What host OS is the FOG server using?
[Edit] Here is a step by step, but only execute it up to and including step 7. After step 7 we will change it up a bit. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11048/moving-fog-s-images-files-off-the-root-partition-2017-edition
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@george1421 My knowledge in Linux is too basic. The server has Ubuntu 18
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@mikmatcr Do you have the new drive installed in your fog server now?
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@george1421 No, now I only have 1 hard drive. But in January I will place another
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@mikmatcr Ok no problem. Get the second hard drive installed in the server than we can walk you through the setup. It might take about 20 minutes to setup. Not to bad if you can copy and paste commands.
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@george1421 Hi, I already added the second disk, this is the result of the command:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 1008K 1 loop /snap/gnome-logs/61 loop1 7:1 0 3,7M 1 loop /snap/gnome-system-monitor/107 loop2 7:2 0 14,8M 1 loop /snap/gnome-characters/359 loop3 7:3 0 42,8M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1313 loop4 7:4 0 4,2M 1 loop /snap/gnome-calculator/544 loop5 7:5 0 54,5M 1 loop /snap/core18/1265 loop6 7:6 0 89,1M 1 loop /snap/core/8268 loop7 7:7 0 89,1M 1 loop /snap/core/8213 loop8 7:8 0 54,6M 1 loop /snap/core18/1279 loop9 7:9 0 156M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/91 loop10 7:10 0 156,7M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/110 loop11 7:11 0 3,7M 1 loop /snap/gnome-system-monitor/111 loop12 7:12 0 956K 1 loop /snap/gnome-logs/81 loop13 7:13 0 44,2M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1353 loop14 7:14 0 4M 1 loop /snap/gnome-calculator/406 loop15 7:15 0 14,8M 1 loop /snap/gnome-characters/367sda 8:0 0 9,1T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi └─sda2 8:2 0 9,1T 0 part / sdb 8:16 0 9,1T 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 16M 0 part └─sdb2 8:18 0 9,1T 0 part /media/serv/Nuevo vol -
@mikmatcr Ok I see you have 2 disks installed (via the
lsblk) command. That second disk appears to have some data on it. Was that your intention? -
@george1421 No, I must format the second disk
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@mikmatcr ok what I would do is run fdisk from command prompt
sudo fdisk /dev/sdb d p 2 d p 1 w eNote it may be q to quit and not e to exit. I did that from memory.
That should delete both partitions and write them back to the disk.
Now you can start with the instructions https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11048/moving-fog-s-images-files-off-the-root-partition-2017-edition up to and including step 7. That will create a new partition and then format it. Once you have it formatted then we can go through the steps to copy the files over and then remap the drive.
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@mikmatcr Did you get your disk setup or do you still need help with this?
