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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 21:46:27 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Ben Carlson <carls107@msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum Question
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.20000524214116.00c7c100@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005241548450.40389-100000@turtle.looksharp. net>
References:  <4.3.0.20000524085507.00aca1e0@pilot.msu.edu>

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At 03:51 PM 5/24/00 -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
>On Wed, 24 May 2000, Ben Carlson wrote:
>
> >
> >I just got the Vinum working on FreeBSD 4.0 stable, everything worked great.
> >I have two 30 gig drives that concatenated together just great.  I did 
> have one
> >quick question, I have a 20 gig drive that I want to add to the two 30 gig
> >drives,
> >but it has stuff on it, will putting it together with the other two drives
> >destroy the
> >data that is on the drive?
>
>Erm, why not copy the data off of the 20GB drive onto the 60GB vinum
>disk, then add that 20GB drive to the plex?

Because you cannot expand the file system on the 60GB volume.  Until this 
is possible the ability to expand a volume isn't very useful.  You can add 
the 20GB drive and make an 80GB volume, but without a 'newfs' you will not 
be able to use the extra 20GB.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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