Using my 2nd hard drive.

erik9

• April 07, 2017 01:40

Hi, Roughly 2 months ago I started renting a dedicated server. I recently used up all the space on the first of the two hard drives, yet I want to continue uploading photos to the 2nd hard drive for the public to see. I wanted to consult members on this forum for alternate possibilities before going the route my hosting provider suggested. I spoke to my hosting company, and they told me this: "Hello, Second disk is not parted by default. If you want to use second drive for cPanel you can check following information how to manage multiple hard drives for cPanel: Managing Multiple Hard Drives with cPanel - The cPanel Admin" Now, I thought about partitioning the drive, installing cPanel on the drive, and possibly creating a new cPanel account via WHM with an entirely different IP address. Before doing so, I would like to know if anyone has a more efficient/easier way of tackling this issue. Thanks ;)

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  dalem

  • April 07, 2017 11:33

  You do not install cpanel on your second drive you partition and mount it has /home2 cpanel will automatically start adding new users to that drive because its the least used

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 07, 2017 17:54

  Hello, You could mount the second drive as /home2 and then move some of the existing accounts that are taking up the space to it using the "Rearrange an Account" option in WHM: Rearrange an Account - Documentation - cPanel Documentation Additionally, new accounts will default to the home directory with the most free space. Thank you.

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  erik9

  • April 07, 2017 22:56

  Hello, You could mount the second drive as /home2 and then move some of the existing accounts that are taking up the space to it using the "Rearrange an Account" option in WHM:

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  dalem

  • April 09, 2017 16:14

  quite possible you can mount the drive as something else not /home? and symbolically link large folders IE: /images to use the second hard drive

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 11, 2017 16:56

  What I am trying to accomplish is, to use the 2nd hard drive to continue adding website content for website 1 and website 2, WITHOUT moving either account over to the other hard drive. Is this possible or not?

  
  Hello, This isn't supported, but other users have reported success with this type of configuration. Here's an example of how someone else set this up: SOLVED - Relocating mail folder to save disk space Thank you.

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