Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:05:57 -0400 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: "'Jerry McAllister'" <jerrymc@msu.edu>, "'Joshua Isom'" <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Adding a new hard drive, and using geom Message-ID: <027c01c8e053$b97b1da0$6900a8c0@tamouh> In-Reply-To: <20080707165841.GC74726@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <266e55c771cbec02a4039641cff631c7@gmail.com> <20080707165841.GC74726@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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> > > I bought a second hard drive for my computer since my /usr > partition > > was getting full. I don't want to deal with hardware raid since I > > don't want to be dependent on a certain hardware vendor or > chipset, so > > I'm wanting to go with geom. I'd prefer to not have to > backup all my > > data(I know I should anyway, but it's a 500gb hard drive, > and drives > > are growing faster than backup solutions). Would it be > possible to do > > a geom stripe to expand /usr and keep all the data or would I just > > need to backup everything, and then put it all back? If I > must deal > > with backing up and erasing, and considering that the > current /usr and > > the new drive aren't the same size, how would I go about mirroring > > other paritions and striping /usr? Would that still be easily > > bootable(no special hacks or workarounds)? > > > > Any tips or other recommendations would be appreciated. > Check this tutorial, step-by-step, very helpful: http://www.freebsddiary.org/gmirror.php
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