On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:37:52AM +0300, Semih Ozlem wrote: > I am currently pre-planning. If it could be done, then I am going to go > about searching and purchasing necessary devices in order to do the task. > That's why I am asking in the first place. I have a usb device that I can > attach for testing now. > > Currently I am just running from a live usb. Here is the output of df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev > tmpfs 384M 6.4M 378M 2% /run > /dev/sdb1 2.9G 2.9G 0 100% /run/live/medium > /dev/loop0 2.6G 2.6G 0 100% /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs > tmpfs 1.9G 1.8G 86M 96% /run/live/overlay > overlay 1.9G 1.8G 86M 96% / > tmpfs 1.9G 102M 1.8G 6% /dev/shm > tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock > tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup > tmpfs 1.9G 436K 1.9G 1% /tmp > tmpfs 384M 5.8M 378M 2% /run/user/1000 > > > Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org>, 23 Şub 2021 Sal, 00:14 tarihinde şunu > yazdı: > > > Semih Ozlem (semihozlemlinuxu...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > It is a starting point but the problem is really not with whether there > > is > > > enough space to download installation files, for they can be downloaded > > > remotely to some other disk. The problem is when installing from the > > > downloaded files, the system itself may give an error saying no disk > > space > > > left. The problem is when installing the file I presume some files are > > > written in linux directory usually I presume or guess in /bin/ or /sbin > > so > > > that the installed programs become usable. When an external disk is > > added, > > > it is writable and readable but its space does not become incorporated or > > > available to /bin /sbin or whatever directories in linux filesystem get > > > used... Is it possible to make some changes to filesystem hierarchy so > > that > > > the additional disk becomes available to the system? > > > > You decide where to mount the new partition(s) or logical volume(s). > > > > Start from the beginning, please. Show us the output of "df -h" or > > something. Also tell us how the computer is being used (personal > > desktop/laptop, server of some kind, etc.). Tell us where the big > > files are, or the big collections of files. > > > > Tell us how big each disk is. > > > > From there, people may be able to give you concrete advice, like "make > > a 10 GB partition and mount it as /var", or "mount the entire second > > disk as /home". > > > > This is, effectively, what LVM was invented for: with a bit of care, you can add another disk and "just add it" as extra storage.
[The debian-handbook package may be quite useful: a long book which covers a lot of the basics and some advanced topics. It was very professionally written by a Debian developer of long experience and covers a lot of your questions. The package installs a PDF - you can also purchase print copies online.] Having said that, if you partition disks using your own partitioning scheme and run out of space in /var/ , say, you may have locked up the machine enough that it's hard to undo enough to attach another disk. This is one of the reasons why it's quite useful to keep a spare desktop style machine around to practice installs, learn how to deal with breakage, have a machine to practice upgrades to the next stable version and so on :) All the best, Andy C.
