Samba Fileserver With SWAT On Fedora 8 (add New disks)

Hi,

I've installed a samba fileserver with swat a tima ago. Now i've installed a new harddisk to it, becouse the diskspace became to small.

I can see the disk with fdisk -l. But how do I mount this disk to the rest. fdisk show the following info:

Schijf /dev/sde: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 koppen, 63 sectoren/spoor, 48641 cilinders
Eenheid = cilinders van 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Schijf-ID: 0x00000000

Schijf /dev/sde bevat geen geldige partitietabel


I've looked at the article "LVM for beginners" but I don't knwo which parameters I should take. Becouse all the stuff which is already on the other disks, i'm scared to lose this if i make a mistake.

 

Are you using LVM for your other partitions?

 

I don't know.

When I installed Samba with SWAT I did a minimal install of fedora. Then the volume is created. But I don't know how to add the new device to this volume.

 

What's the output of

Code:

df -h

? What's in /etc/fstab?

 

[root@server3 ~]# df -h
Bestandssysteem Grtte Gebr Besch Geb% Aangekoppeld op
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
1,2T 1,1T 17G 99% /
/dev/sda1 194M 19M 166M 11% /boot
tmpfs 374M 0 374M 0% /dev/shm

And in fstab:

[root@server3 ~]# vi /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

Ok, you're using LVM, so you can add the new hard drive to it. Take a look at http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm

 

Almost a year later (and a lot of troubles behind me) I picked up this problem again. I already added the disk (thanks Falko!) and with vgdisplay I can see that the disk is added to the volume.

But SWAT doesn't see the extra space (when I connect with a windows client with explorer). It still shows the old volumesize, and it's not possible to copy more data to it.
Do I need to do something else in SWAT? Changing parameters or something?

grtz,
jawis

 

Have you tried to reboot the system?

 

Yes I did. Didn't work. Even turned off for about 10 minutes, but it didn't work.

 

I Think I know where the problem is, but I don't know how do I solve this.

There's a different between the size of lvdisplay(1.18TB) and vgdisplay(1.54TB). Do I need to unmount and remount the whole volumegroup again? And if yes, will I lose my data?

 

This only means that your logical volumes are not using all the space in your volume group. If you want to change that, you can do it with the lvextend command (also see http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm ).