spliting my disk so I can learn how to drive this.

You'll probably want to set up another linode an play with that, splitting the disk into two operating systems means only one can be running at a time so you drupal site would be offline while you experiment.

Hey (sorry for the slow reply, was off the grid),

I know that I need to set a not linode.

My question is can i use the 768 which i have and am using only 5% of the storage and setup another one next to it? (without have to buy more space)

if so, how do i split the space i have, as i am running a site that needs to stay live, an d the guy that set it up configed the linode to use all the space.

thanks,

Still not quite sure what you want, but you can't share disk space between linodes.

You can have two (or more) disk images, split amongst the available disk space for one linode, but you can only have a single OS running on a single linode at a time.

@tomer:

Hey (sorry for the slow reply, was off the grid),

if so, how do i split the space i have, as i am running a site that needs to stay live, an d the guy that set it up configed the linode to use all the space.

thanks,

You can't do this, you have to shutdown your node to resize the only disk image, then create a second disk image from the unallocated space, assign it to the node and then boot the first disk image.

You could then mount the 2nd disk image inside your linode.

Thanks kyhwana for your replies.

I have a few things i need to clear:

1. If I make a disc image and then redeploy it, i have to do so to a disk which is identical to the disk i took the image from.

right? or does the image only use the space which I'm actually using and then it would be possible to deploy it to a small disk.

2. how would one go about making a disc image (i use a mac and cyberduck, if that's of any help)

3. in your first reply you stated that one linode could only use one OS? is that the case even if i make out of my linode two different disks? how do they connect to each other?

Thanks,

Tomer

What I thought I could do is:

1. buy more space.

2. make another disc.

3. use the back up to restore the image that i have to that disc.

now the only issue that I think i might have is config the ip so the site comes up for the new disc.

…did that make any sense?

thanks,

t.

p.s. i think i got the thing with the disc image that it doesn't really need to be the same size, but only what is actually being used.

@tomer:

So I thought I'd split the disk keep one with the site untouched and mess around with the other (I found a few nice how-to guides on the web, but they all start from zero).

here's what I've been able to accomplish:

log into my account with cyberduck and see the files (i have about 500mb on the Drupal site).

that's it really.

btw, the end goal for now really is to instal another Drupal installation on the other disk and to learn on the way how this whole vps thing works.
You're talking about two different things.

1) splitting the linode. It's perfectly possible, via the linode manager website, to create two different OS instances. Only one can booted at a time. So you could have a "play" linode instance, and changes made to that won't affect the "real" instance. But while the "play" instance is running then the "real" instance won't be.

2) Having multiple drupal instances on the machine at the same time. That requires drupal knowledge and you'll get better answers asking in a drupal forum how you can have two instances running at the same time.

So what your saying is that if i want to "play" i need to either buy another linode or turn off the live site while i'm playing and then turn it on when i'm done…?

@tomer:

So what your saying is that if i want to "play" i need to either buy another linode or turn off the live site while i'm playing and then turn it on when i'm done…?
Or learn how to configure drupal to run two different sites at the same time on the same linode instance.

That seems to be the answer…

As these are different versions of Drupal, I won't even bother trying to run two site and just open another Linode.

I must say that although the result is rather disappointing, the process has been very educational and I feel confident to open now a new Linode myself and try configuring it. thanks all.