reggiep Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 Like a giddy child with a new toy at Christmas, I went wild when we first found fog and I installed it on a spare workstation. Now I am regretting how good it is as I need more images but don't have enough space on my 40 Gig HD. Is there any way I could store my client images on another machine, be it linux or windows. Has anyone done this? thanks
Domino Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 Can you mount a windows share ? you should be able to use the storage management window on the fog management page (sixth icon from the left on the top bar) to define where images are placed...
Arcath Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 defaultly fog stores its images in "/images" you could copy the images onto a bigger hard drive and mount it to /images, or make a folder inside /images that was new a HDD. You could also set up another machine as a FOG storage node, and store some images on it
reggiep Posted March 18, 2009 Author Posted March 18, 2009 Just to show more ignorance on my behalf, is it easy to mount another hard drive into a linux box? Would I just install it as usual and then use the mount or is it mnt command?
Domino Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 another internal drive? most linux distros would mount it themselves these days - what distro are you using?
reggiep Posted March 18, 2009 Author Posted March 18, 2009 another internal drive? most linux distros would mount it themselves these days - what distro are you using? Ubuntu desktop edition! I have not even tried yet, but wasn't sure how easy it would be. I guess I should trust linux a bit more.
somabc Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 (edited) Installing A New Hard Drive If you are using an internal SATA drive it will likely be /dev/sdb1 or similar. Edited March 18, 2009 by somabc 1
mcloum Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 Yeah the best way would be to use a FOG storage node. Install fog on another machine with a large drive in and only select the storage node option. There are guides on the fog site FOG :: A Computer Cloning Solution - Home Not only do you get a bigger drive but you would get load balancing as well doing it this way. oh and they have implemented Windows 7 in the next release
reggiep Posted March 19, 2009 Author Posted March 19, 2009 I have a very large Direct attached storage device attached to a mac server (4TB). I guess i could work out how to mount a share from that and then put my images there. In fact I think I'll give that a go this morning as it seems very quiet this morning, famous last words.
Ric_ Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 I have a very large Direct attached storage device attached to a mac server (4TB). I guess i could work out how to mount a share from that and then put my images there. In fact I think I'll give that a go this morning as it seems very quiet this morning, famous last words. Just export an NFS share from your Mac box and then mount that somewhere on the Linux box. Add the details to /etc/fstab and it will mount at boot time too.
3s-gtech Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 I'm just doing this with FOG under Debian 5 (so pretty much the same setup as for Ubuntu). I have mounted the new drive within the /images folder, and it shows up there and I can navigate to it fine. However, FOG doesn't recognise that there is new space there. Is there something that needs to be done to the directory to make it work as an extension to /images? (sorry for minor hijack)
Domino Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 how is the drive formatted? what about permissions also..?
3s-gtech Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 It's ext3 formatted fresh, permissions set to read-write. Some screen shots - the second is the Properties dialog from the 'imagedisk' folder.
reggiep Posted March 19, 2009 Author Posted March 19, 2009 (edited) Just export an NFS share from your Mac box and then mount that somewhere on the Linux box. Add the details to /etc/fstab and it will mount at boot time too. Ok I can mount the drive from an nfs share from the terminal mount -t nfs 10.60.28.53:/volumes/promise/fog_images /mnt/fog_images but can't work out the syntax for doing that in fstab. Could someone point me in the right direction for that please? Edited March 19, 2009 by reggiep
3s-gtech Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 (edited) /dev/sdb1 /images/imagedisk ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 This is the line added to my fstab (as root). My HDD is a SCSI and show as sdb, yours may differ. Should be the same otherwise. Edited March 19, 2009 by 3s-gtech
reggiep Posted March 19, 2009 Author Posted March 19, 2009 My problem there is that it is a nfs share and not a physical HD! Would that still work?
3s-gtech Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 If you could mount the share, and it shows up in /dev/ as a disk, I'd think so. Otherwise, not sure - I've been using Linux for four days (though I'm a quick learner).
Arcath Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 try [HOSTNAME]:/share/name /images/nfs/ nfs rw 0 0 that might work, but im no expert on fstab 1
reggiep Posted March 19, 2009 Author Posted March 19, 2009 (edited) I went for IPADDRESS:/share/name /images/nfs/ nfs in the end. Worked for me! Thanks for all the help. Edited March 19, 2009 by reggiep
twou4u Posted January 28, 2010 Posted January 28, 2010 Hi there im very new all linux and seems to be having the sam problems with my fog server as some of the others on this posting. i was just wondering, if could install fog on a larger hard drive in the same machine in order to add the a new storage node.
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