From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 17:01:24 2011 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 5A9CB106564A for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:01:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FB98FC0A for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwc9 with SMTP id 9so1403077qwc.13 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.222.203 with SMTP id ih11mr4135675qcb.250.1308589283200; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmail.com (ool-435056c7.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.86.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id mz7sm4250344qcb.11.2011.06.20.10.01.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:01:18 -0400 From: Chris Brennan To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20110620170115.GA25684@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: New FreeBSD8.2 server install. 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, 20 Jun 2011 17:01:24 -0000 I've got a new machine to replace the one that died on me a few weeks ago and since then, I've collected and cataloged my drives of various sizes and I am curious if I am able to do something like a poor-mans LVM, I thought about gmirror but that might be tricky, since I would have to slice drives up according to the smallest drive I have (current an unmarked 40GB drive). Is there a way within FreeBSD to concatenate the drives into a software raid0 array? **EDIT** I postponed this mail and actually got significant answers from freenode/##freebsd, more then I antisipated. gconcat is what I was looking for above and in lieu of that, ZFS, which I would very much like to utilize, I'm just not sure how to go about it with a hodge-podge collection of disks: 1) 1x150GB PATA/EIDE drive 2) 2x80GB Drives (1 SATA, 1 PATA/EIDE) 3) 1x60GB PATA/EIDE drive 4) 2x40GB PATA/EIDE drives The machine is a P4 Prescott, 2.6Ghz Machine (32-bit CPU), like I mentioned, I just don't know what to do and am looking for some suggestions. P.S. Currently, this machine is installed w/ the 150GB disk and I am sitting at the Fixit prompt because I may whipe the drive and start over with something else. -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------