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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:07:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        kirk@strauser.com (Kirk Strauser)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?
Message-ID:  <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> from "Kirk Strauser" at Oct 20, 2002 08:47:08 PM

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> 
> At 2002-10-21T01:15:48Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> It sounded like he was asking about growfs(8).  I haven't used it, but
> wouldn't that work?
> -- 
> Kirk Strauser
> In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

It sounds to me like he is talking about software raid.
Take a look at the 'vinum' stuff.   But, I don't think you
can do it to your root filesystem. 

Good luck,

////jerry

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