How to expand storage

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Hi all,

I would like to ask for help clearing my understanding how to handle harddrives.

I switched from omv to yunohost and so my setup is a small SSD an two drives I used in a RAID

When I switched to yunohost I started with the SSD. Now I’m running out of space.
So I would like to add my to other harddrives. I found Adding external storage but it says discs are mounted under media.

So I would like to ask - is there any possibility to mount them to another folder - so the Appdata can be saved automatically to the extended harddrive (similar to OMV?)

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Bonjour,
Je n’ai jamais fait, mais il me semble que tu peux le monter comme tu veux et où tu veux !

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I realized this is the wrong question: Where do I need to mount my second (and later third) hard drive so it expends the storage for all applications (and probably not spin all day)
any idea?

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Je pense que tu souhaites une méthode comme celles ci-dessous.
En revanche, je pense qu’il faut être très prudent, d’autant que Yunohost écrit dans /etc, /var, et cœtera
Attendre, peut-être, un avis plus avisé ?

https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/deplacer_home
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving

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I think you want a method like the ones below.
On the other hand, I think we have to be very careful, especially since Yunohost writes in /etc, /var, and so on
Wait, perhaps, for a more informed opinion?

https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/deplacer_home
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving

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Thanks for the quick answer! Any other ideas?

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Lvm, linux volume manager, so you could add partitions or different devices like it where just one. Is not very straightforward, but with patience and a couple of search in searx/google/duckduckgo you’ll find a tutorial step by step easily.

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Many thanks. So the way to go would be:

  1. Create a LVM on my second harddrive (as supposed by @bjarkan)
  2. Move the /home register to the LVM (as mentioned by @anonyme18)

Later on as the needed space grow I can easily add a new (third) harddrive to the LVM and than have additional space in my /home folder

So I would like to be encouraged to move the data from /home because there is the need for storage as the server grows?

Thanks anyway for the very quick response!

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