Installing apps to other drives

[shulse]

Good day everyone,

I just installed Amahi onto a Dell Poweredge 2500 server I have and had a question about installing or setting up the apps to install to other drives.

To give you an overview, I have 6 drives on this machine, one is dedicated to the OS (Ubuntu 12.04 server), and the others are for applications and storage. The drives are as follows

4x33.8GB (One of the 33.8GB drives is the OS drive. )
2x126GB (Specifically for storage/backup purposes)

What I was wondering is if it's possible to install the apps to the other 3 33.8 GB drives. For example, Have MySQL on one, and the apps on another? My line of thought is to keep the OS drive free just for it so it doesn't get bogged down with applications and data, give the applications their own drive so they can run and play all they want. If need be, I can probably re-allocate one of the larger drives for Amahi if there isn't any other solution.

I'm new to Linux administration but I know some commands and feel comfortable doing command line stuff. I may not understand it but I can do it. So any helpful tips, advice or how-to's you could share would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.
Steve

[bigfoot65]

Anything is possible, but it would require manual steps on your part. Quite honestly I think you are asking for trouble by moving apps to different drives. It may break Amahi or the app uninstall.

[shulse]

I'm kinda with you on that. I was talking to another friend (whom is a linux guru) and he said the same. I think what I'm going to do is re-do the server and make one of the larger drives the primary one and then use the others for storage.

[bigfoot65]

That sounds like the best plan. I use a 500GB drive for OS and the rest are storage.

[shulse]

One last question. If I do that, I'll re-install ubuntu and then Amahi, will I need to create a new HDA or can I re-use the existing one? I hope that makes sense, I'm not sure how else to ask it.

[bigfoot65]

You can use the same code as long as the network properties will be the same, ie. IP address, Gateway, and domain.

[shulse]

Cool, I was thinking that was how it worked but I wasn't sure.

Thank you for your assistance and patience with me.

Steve

[bigfoot65]

Not a problem, that is what the Amahi community is all about.