From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 28 17:18:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F997106566B for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:18:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass9573@gmx.com) Received: from mail.gmx.com (unknown [213.165.64.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86F128FC1A for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Aug 2009 17:18:03 -0000 Received: from adsl-23.79.107.25.tellas.gr (EHLO [192.168.23.10]) [79.107.25.23] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu001) with SMTP; 28 Aug 2009 19:18:03 +0200 X-Authenticated: #46156728 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/aYmgw5nXaAmIUjn8zPFhlSP1qxqO6VEv4DRE9Pp oQkTvWa6U2UVRW Message-ID: <4A98112A.6030503@gmx.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:17:30 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruben de Groot , Nikos Vassiliadis , RW , jalmberg@identry.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090826142221.0807dc75@gumby.homeunix.com> <4A953EF3.5010305@gmx.com> <20090828095527.GA30068@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20090828095527.GA30068@ei.bzerk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.5600000000000001 Cc: Subject: Re: Can partitions span more than one drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:18:07 -0000 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 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