Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:17:30 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com>, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, jalmberg@identry.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can partitions span more than one drive? Message-ID: <4A98112A.6030503@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <20090828095527.GA30068@ei.bzerk.org> References: <E7324A34-08A0-48A0-86B5-E1C7777097A9@identry.com> <20090826142221.0807dc75@gumby.homeunix.com> <4A953EF3.5010305@gmx.com> <20090828095527.GA30068@ei.bzerk.org>
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Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:56:03PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis typed: >> RW wrote: >>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 >>> John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup >>>> partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm >>>> guessing not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a >>>> partition is part of a slice, >>> You can join 2 partitions into 1 with gconcat. OTOH that would wipe any >>> existing data as you would need to put a new filesystem on the combined >>> partition. >> No, you can always use growfs to expand the filesystem. >> But of course, the usual warnings apply, read carefully the >> growfs manual... > > You can not use growfs to expand a gconcat provider to the new gconcat device. What I mean is: 1) you have a filesystem on device A and a spare disk device B 2) concatenate A and B using gconcat 3) growfs the fs in the concatenated device and you are done. Nikos
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