[Solved] How can add a new Hard Disk and move the /var partition

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

@MrE

How can add a new virtual disk, to mount as the /var partition, so it can be used to store the soon to be folders for my users, and to add more modules later.

Some docs:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(LVM)

And then you need to format and mount it in the VM, found some threads about that:

Be careful, you should know what you’re doing as you may harm your system with these operations.

How to add a disk in Nethserver with LVM

#How to add a disk in Nethserver with LVM We will see how to add a hard drive in an existing Virtual Group. Version and revision: V1.0 / R3 Skill: General audience. Published: 2015-09-08 Review: 2015-11-12 Author: Jim Contact: Nethserver community forum: Jim At first, I`m strongly recommending to read this LVM Administrator’s Guide: https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/ There’s all you need to understand what is LVM and how to play safely with it. In my M…

Samba Shared Folder Locations

Regarding shared folders location, as others members mentioned, it can be done at install time from anaconda (CentOS) installer by assigning a mount point for /var/lib/nethserver/ibay (or for /var or /var/lib/nethserver); or afterwards by editing fstab adding a bind mount. On most cases this only needs to be done one time (CLI) and shared folders can be created/deleted/managed from the UI. Another option (haven’t tried but it should be possible), using a separate UI, could be to use cockpit sid…

How modify fstab to add swap or other disk permanently?

Follow this: create new share on web gui e.g newshare create filesystem: mkfs.xfs /dev/sdxx (where sdxx is partition on new disk, also can be mdxxx if You’re using raid) get disk filesystem UUID by: ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid/ echo "UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx /var/lib/nethserver/ibay/newshare xfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab shutdown -h now change ownership of new share (in my case initially was root:root) chown youruser:yourgroup newshare or re-add sambashare newsha…

https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=userguide:install_nethserver_on_proxmox

@MrE

Or (Hope not) I need to re-install the full nethserver and re-create the AD?

Not necessarily.

@MrE

Maybe I can backup and restore all my users and groups to accomplish this task?

That’s an official migration way and will work but as you have virtualization you don’t really have to reinstall.