Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:45:48 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data? Message-ID: <20021021011548.GB14294@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <009801c2789c$2f9ee910$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <009801c2789c$2f9ee910$0301a8c0@bigdaddy>
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On Sunday, 20 October 2002 at 17:52:52 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> From what I've read, it appears that if I create a concatenated volume > using vinum or ccd, I will destroy whatever data I already have on the > disks. Is this correct? Sometimes. > Is there anyway to do it without destroying the data? Yes. If you have 265 sectors free space before a partition, you can start a Vinum drive at that point, overlapping the partition, and define the space taken by that partition to be a single subdisk. > I have one 80G archive drive and have filled it. I added another > and would like to have both drives seen by the system as one 160G > drive. You can't do that. UFS won't let you coalesce two file systems. Neither will any other file system that I can think of. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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