Centos8 root Network drive is full, need to increase space

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I have installed Samba on centos8 in order to enable sharing for windows systems. I have 2 HDDs already installed having 1 TB each drive. I installed a new drive also which is 2TB. The problem I am facing is.... the root that is shared via samba is 50GB only and it is already full. I want to increase the sharing space either by using the same directory or using my new HD. I am new to all this and need help.
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[root@localhost ~]# lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
 ├─sda1 ext4 e3f4c534--45f9-27 /boot
 └─sda2 LVM2_member fYaqdFF4d
    ├─cl-root xfs f8038c-6c1e3 /
    ├─cl-swap swap f14722-ae7 [SWAP]
    └─cl-home xfs 026070929 /home
sdb
 └─sdb1 LVM2_member AP6buf--XQgD3
    └─cl-home xfs 0261042a929 /home
sdc

Jon G - Megaphone Tech · Answer

It sounds like your Samba share is on the root partition.  If you expect this to be the largest section, you can:

Copy the entire contents of the Samba share to the 2TB drive.
Delete the contents of the old Samba share, but keep the folder.  E.g. If your share is in /opt/samba, delete everything inside /opt/samba but keep the folder.
Mount the 2TB drive at /opt/samba.  You can do this temporarily with the mount command; if you want this to persist, you can edit the /etc/fstab file.  I can't be more specific with what you've shared thus far, but as Heysus says in the comments above, posting the output of those commands will let people help you better.

Centos8 root Network drive is full, need to increase space

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