Adding a New Drive to cPanel/WHM Server
Hi everyone,
I’m running cPanel/WHM (latest version) on CloudLinux 9 with a RAID 1 setup on Hetzner's dedicated server. I’m adding a new 1TB NVMe/SSD drive to expand storage. I want to ensure this process is safe for my production server.
- Will the new drive remain independent (e.g., mounted as
/home2
) without affecting existing RAID 1 drives? - Can I safely use it for new account storage while keeping existing accounts on
/home
? - Will backups (local and remote) automatically handle accounts stored on both
/home
and/home2
?
Never done this before so that's why I ask.
Thanks
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Mark as solved, done without issues.
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I'm glad to hear the work went well. As far as cPanel is concerned, we don't really care about the disk setup as long as it works properly in the OS.
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I'd like to add this, it's relevant to the topic of adding a new/additional drive.
There is no option to select to which drive (home dir) to store new accounts upon creation or accounts transfer/restoration?
I've formated and partitioned additional drive, configured, added "home2" in Basic WebHost Manager® Setup: Additional home directories, created new accounts and it automatically went for home2 no matter new users’ home directories is "/home".
Am I doning something wrong here or is it the only option "Rearrange an Account" feature?
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milo695 - that's correct - the system uses that value from WHM >> Basic WebHost Manager to determine where the accounts get added. It will always choose the drive with the most space.
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I see, Rex are there any user that requested feature to select the destination?
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I'm actually not seeing any requests along those lines - feel free to submit one over at features.cpanel.net and I'll bring it up with the team!
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