From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 17:41: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE6415592 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:41:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA54595; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:39:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:39:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Greg Lehey Cc: andrew , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Arrays Message-ID: <19991228193933.A54528@dan.emsphone.com> References: <19991229113844.T1316@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991229113844.T1316@freebie.lemis.com>; from "Greg Lehey" on Wed Dec 29 11:38:44 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 29), Greg Lehey said: > On Tuesday, 28 December 1999 at 7:49:40 -0200, andrew wrote: > > Can I merge many FreeBSD partitions on different disks in one big > > partition? > > Well, that depends on what you mean by 'merge'. > > > (like NetWare volumes). > > I don't know NetWare. Netware has a neat feature where you can expand a volume by tacking on the freespace of another disk to the end of your volume (concatenation without losing the original filesystem). Unfortunately, there are no tools for resizing FFS, so you /can/ merge partitions, but only by backing up, running vinum to concatenate them, and restoring. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message