Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:06:58 -0400 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can partitions span more than one drive? Message-ID: <4A953372.4000602@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E7324A34-08A0-48A0-86B5-E1C7777097A9@identry.com> References: <E7324A34-08A0-48A0-86B5-E1C7777097A9@identry.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Almberg wrote: > Now that I've got my rsnapshot backup server working beautifully, > backing up several servers to a central backup server (I like this a > lot), I have a problem... > > I built my backup server from a machine I had lying around. It has two > 140G hard drives. I dedicated one drive to a /backup partition. > Unfortunately, that is now running at 88% capacity... i.e., only 16G > left... > > Now that I know this approach is going to work, I'm going to run out and > buy a big drive. > > Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition to > encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm guessing not, > since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a partition is part of a > slice, which is part of a physical drive, but maybe some bright person > has come up with an app that overcomes that limitation. > > Thanks: John Hi John, I haven't done much with any of these solutions yet, but I think each one can do what you want, with various pros/cons: Vinum: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html RAID0 striping: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/RAID0,_Software,_How_to_setup ZFS: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html Hope that helps get you started, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKlTNy0sRouByUApARAuIfAKCSSxrcZxS7t4U1dZZOdZ6Taoxs8gCgrLrC BFLKz7VNBHEYTpoTQ25jnm8= =pM8t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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