From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 17:34:28 2008 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 7A4F11065674 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hakmi@rogers.com) Received: from smtp123.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp123.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.53.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 226B68FC12 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hakmi@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 30230 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2008 17:07:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Cc:References:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer:In-Reply-To:X-MimeOLE:Thread-Index; b=6CcCQ0Wtqox/iXj9xLferx3YkOFXkeg8yjzCBGQw4qEMrSxq+NpIkqcFLw72MreLR3fesEAvuAeJrVEMRtB9loL9CI4kWrnEJM9xmIvshk96bwLByTZLDOEvXpwar1qxmAtVsAwnJqLLfe4JHlGbW+wR8ZLPFEeBtSL/EA9zVCo= ; Received: from unknown (HELO tamouh) (hakmi@rogers.com@99.224.65.182 with login) by smtp123.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jul 2008 17:07:47 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: kuSxbjsVM1lB_bISxoBtVST3yj2fOdWd5bxjeaWd0_phf5zZ8v1CgyQH6vhsFkXwGA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: "Tamouh H." To: "'Jerry McAllister'" , "'Joshua Isom'" References: <266e55c771cbec02a4039641cff631c7@gmail.com> <20080707165841.GC74726@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:05:57 -0400 Message-ID: <027c01c8e053$b97b1da0$6900a8c0@tamouh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20080707165841.GC74726@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: AcjgUyUil0AgG4LNT0qqT2TSnV3fWwAAIOmA Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: RE: Adding a new hard drive, and using geom 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: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:34:28 -0000 > > > 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