I've got a new dedicated server that I want to use purely for backup purposes.
[root@dedi ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 20G 942M 18G 6% /
tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 283M 32M 236M 12% /boot
/dev/sda2 1.8T 68M 1.7T 1% /data
[root@dedi ~]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 1953481816 sda
8 1 307200 sda1
8 2 1932167168 sda2
8 3 20480000 sda3
8 4 524288 sda4
8 16 1953481816 sdb
I'd like to keep the tmpfs and /boot as they are, and create one big ~4TB partition out of the rest.
I know this is relatively straightforward stuff, but I'd really appreciate hand walking through it, as I've never done any linux partitioning stuff before, and don't want to make a mess of the brand new box...
Many thanks