On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 10:37 AM <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:13:12 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > You can always add more filesystem space later. It's easier if you're > using > > LVM but that isn't required. You just build another filesystem on the new > > drive after it's installed and mount it into your filesystems, at the > > appropriate mount point. > > Don't you have to do things like copy the old filesystem content to the > new > filesystem (possibly using a temporary mount point for one of those), then > move > the new filesystem to the old mount point? (Maybe that is only if they > are > "system" filesystems (e.g., /var, /etc, /home ...?) >
I answered that in my 2nd paragraph, which you see right below this text. One step at a time for a newer sysadmin. > Where is that? Depends on your needs. What if it's a critical filesystem > > that you can't unmount while the OS is up? Or what if you need to copy a > > critical fs to the new drive and reboot using the new, bigger copy? If > > either is the case, write back and we'll pick it up from there. > >
