Hi there, I am running out of disk space on my web hosting server. But I can order additional storage space which can be connected using NFS. Is there a way to put the /var directory on an NFS share? (Or maybe only the /var/www directory?) I already tried different approaches, but none of them worked. Is there a way to accomplish that? Best Tom
What were those and in which way did they not work? I mean, if you already know the usual ways of mounting NFS shares do not work, I can save time by not suggesting those. Have you checked you can not change your web host to a bigger disk? Or increase the size of the disk?
You are absolutely right. I'm sorry for my inaccurate question. Here's what I tried so far: 1. Mount the NFS volume to /media/newvol, make a symlink /var which points to /media/newvol/var (with the /var directory copied to /media/newvol/var) 2. Directly mount the NFS filesystem to /var 3. Mount the NFS volume to /media/newvol, make a bind mount to /var 4. tried the above not only with the whole /var directory, but also with parts of it like /var/lib or /var/www When trying to move the whole /var directory, the NFS mount does not work at all anymore, as the directory /var/lib/nfs is needed for the NFS mount itself to succeed. When trying to only move the /var/www directory, there's another error message shown during boot. The message is "Ordering cycle found" during loading the unit local-fs.target. This probably is triggered by some cyclic dependencies between the /var/www mount and the bind mounts of the log directories within /var/www Unfortunately, that's not an option, as I have a fixed hosting product which I can only upgrade by adding additional NFS storage. The only option would be to get a new, bigger hosting product, which I would like to avoid. Sorry again for my poorly worded question and thank you for your support! Best regards, Thomas
I already tried the steps mentioned there. I believe that they are working with locally installed disks. But this did not work for me and my NFS scenario. Thanks for the answer! Tom
