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Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

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Also even though I have been using linux for a while, that still does not
mean that I would know everything about linux or that there would be no
details that I miss...

Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com>, 27 Şub 2021 Cmt, 11:30
tarihinde şunu yazdı:

> Sorry I can not read emails very often. No I am not new to linux I have
> been using it for the past 6 or 7 years starting mostly with ubuntu. I had
> CENTOS and Ubuntu and debian installed on some machines before.  Most of
> them stopped functioning. Some of them in less than six months.
>
> I am new to the debian users group, because I found out that a user group
> existed much later. During this time I had a lot of issues with computers.
> The new computer that I got, originally the store claimed that the
> insurance on my machine would be invalidated if I installed another
> operation system on the machine.
>
> The reason for hesitating to install debian right now is simply that the
> machines may become unusable again, and the invested time and machinepower
> to installing a machine may end up being wasted. The other reason was the
> claim that insurance may become invalid which later turned out not to be
> so, but only after asking the company that sells the computer several
> times. The third reason is I simply do not at the moment have the time to
> backup the existing hard drive before installing a new operating system on
> it, and also that should it become unusable or stop functioning (I had
> debian installed on a usb 64 gb of size that stopped booting)..
>
> Yes I did figure out that it was lvm2 package that was needed, and lvs is
> actually one of the internal commands for lvm2 as well so it could be run
> from the console lvm2 prodives. I am looking into the option of using lvm.
>
>
>
> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>, 26 Şub 2021 Cum, 20:42 tarihinde şunu
> yazdı:
>
>> Charles Curley (charlescurley@charlescurley.com) wrote:
>> > I also made the mistake of figuring that getting lvs installed would
>> > help solve the problem. I later realized that getting lvs installed
>> > would be irrelevant: the fact that it is not installed tells us what
>> > we needed to know: M. Ozlem isn't running LVM, so the solution to the
>> > problem is not simply to expand the current volume group (VG) onto the
>> > new hard drive. There is no current VG to expand.
>> >
>> > So where do we go from here?
>>
>> Yes, all of that is true and useful.
>>
>> The real problem, though, is that the OP apparently *does not have* a
>> Debian installation at all.  They're just sticking a Live USB thingy
>> into a computer and running Debian from that.  Debian is not installed
>> on their computer, and they've stated that they have no intention of
>> installing it on their computer -- at least not on the current hard
>> drive which is dedicated to Microsoft Windows.
>>
>> Once we learned that, I pretty much stopped paying attention to anything
>> else they said.
>>
>> I'm guessing that their goal is to keep booting from their Live USB
>> thingy, but to use a second hard drive (which does not exist yet) as
>> some sort of auxiliary storage that will magically hold whatever they
>> want to install.
>>
>> I might suggest that a *better* goal would be to install Debian on the
>> new hard drive (once it exists), and stop booting the Live system.
>>
>>

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is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems  and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-22 21:10 +0100
  Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-02-22 21:30 +0100
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        Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-02-26 08:00 +0100
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                Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian  systems and install programs to the secondary disk Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-27 13:30 +0100
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