From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 17:46:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bcbso.bcbso.com (bcbso.bcbso.com [199.2.126.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C8931500A for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from raclark@regence.com) Received: from taurus.bcbso.com by bcbso.bcbso.com via smtpd (for [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 29 Dec 1999 01:46:11 UT Received: (private information removed) Received: (private information removed) X-Lotus-FromDomain: TBG From: "Robert A Clarks" To: Dan Nelson Cc: Greg Lehey , andrew , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <88256856.0009AA1A.00@notes.or.regence.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:44:17 -0800 Subject: Re: RAID Arrays Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Even in Netware, its a good idea to not count on the space being available until the volume is dismounted and remounted. (Unless they've fixed that.) Are Netware volumes still limited to 32 segments? (Where segments is almost certainly the wrong word.) [RC] From: Dan Nelson on 12/28/99 05:39 PM To: Greg Lehey cc: andrew , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (bcc: Robert A Clarks/BCBSO/TBG) Subject: Re: RAID Arrays 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message