From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 7: 8: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E6F37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC03B43E4A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g9LE7kx12871; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:07:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data? To: kirk@strauser.com (Kirk Strauser) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:07:46 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> from "Kirk Strauser" at Oct 20, 2002 08:47:08 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > At 2002-10-21T01:15:48Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message