Making that little 20gb HDD bigger.
You should be able to IMAGE your drive onto any size laptop drive you
want. Of course, the "leftover" space from your imaging is going
to be unused. You could partition it and mount it But why?
THERE'S A BETTER WAY...
Partitioning? Ugh! More expensive drive just because it's 2 1/2"? No
Way! Slower, more prone to failure... there are many reasons why you
should leave the network storage tasks to another device. There is a
simple solution: get a NAS.
Network Attached Storage has gotten pretty cheap. Most current devices
are Linux based and are running Samba. This means that you can
"Mount" the drive with your Magnia.
Why? Well, simply because VPN access doesn't browse well. Also, I
actually wore out a Magnia's drive from too much activity!
Linux has no drive letters. The filesystem is mounted from the root and
all devices are folders. If you look at your filesystem with WebMin's File
Manager (Others-->File Manager) you will notice that a couple of the
folder icons have an "M" in them. This mean they are MOUNTED folders,
they are not physically on the root drive. Newer versions of Windows can
do this as well. The "home" and "var" directories are
actually separate partitions on the Magnia's HDD.
If you go to System-->Disk and Network Filesystems you can view all
current mounts. You can also add a mount. I added the disk attached
to my Linksys
NLSU2 as a mount on the /home/public directory. The parameters were
Mounted as /home/public/sharedocs
Type Windows Networking Filesystem (smbfs)
Location linksysDisk 1
This works for any Samba type network share. You just have to make sure
the destination folder you are going to mount into is empty. Remember: Questions
can be posted in the FORUM section !
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