From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 20 20:23:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11459 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:23:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.aloha.com (root@leahi.aloha.com [206.127.224.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11446 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:23:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from 209.84.67.136 (behemoth1-134.pixi.net [209.84.67.136]) by mail.aloha.com (8.8.7/8.8.7/PIXI-5.2) with SMTP id SAA08822; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:23:09 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <351340CB.63F7@aloha.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:23:40 -1000 From: Gary Dunn Reply-To: knowtree@aloha.com Organization: Knowledge Tree X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition spanning multiple hdd's References: <199803200300.VAA12467@www.hcol.net> <19980320141032.00248@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thu, 20 March 1997 at 21:05:15 -0600, Tarakanov wrote: > > I had my mail partition overfill (well, almost -- 99%) and I am thinking > > about adding another drive (or drives) in to put in the same partition. > > (/mail). > > So the question is: > > do I have to enter the /stand/sysinstall to do this or do I have to use > > the commands of the freebsd manually. > > You have the choice. > > > If I do it, will the current information on the /mail partition be > > retained or do I need to back it up? > > Do you really have a /mail file system? That's unusual. Anyway, if > you add a new file system, it doesn't (shouldn't :-) affect the ones > you have already. > > > I guess it's not really a partition, but a volume that I am talking > > about (at least novell would call it a volume) but this is my first > > unix box so far. > > In UNIX, it's best to call them file systems. We also use the term > partition, but differently from Microsoft, so it's confusing. > > To summarize: you can use either sysinstall or the old-style utilities > to add a new file system. sysinstall is much easier, but both methods > offer you ample opportunities for shooting yourself in the foot. Make > a backup first, and tread carefully. > > Greg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I am curious about this thread ... does FreeBSD support large filesystems spanning multiple disks? The HP unix I worked on a few years ago did this. If so, where can I read more about it? -- Gary Dunn Knowledge Tree Honolulu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message