How to tell LAMP server to look at 2nd HDD for files when php is still pointing to a location on 1st HDD?

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Published on 2013-06-27T03:21:51Z Indexed on 2013/06/27 4:23 UTC
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I have a phpBB install that currently has its attachments stored on my main HDD, but I am running out of room there fast. So I want to get a 2nd HDD installed on the server and put all of the phpBB files on that instead. So my question is how can I tell phpBB to look at my 2nd HDD for the files when it is still pointing to a location on 1st HDD? I've read a bit about softlinks and mod_alias but am still confused about how they work exactly. Does anyone know a good way to do this?

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