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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:22:21 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?
Message-ID:  <20090826142221.0807dc75@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <E7324A34-08A0-48A0-86B5-E1C7777097A9@identry.com>
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400
John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote:


> 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, 

You can join 2 partitions into 1 with gconcat. OTOH that would wipe any
existing data as you would need to put a new filesystem on the combined
partition.




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