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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:59:57 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?
Message-ID:  <20021021232957.GC92883@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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On Monday, 21 October 2002 at 10:07:46 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> [Missing attribution to Kirk Strauser]
>>
>> At 2002-10-21T01:15:48Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
>>
>>>> I have one 80G archive drive and have filled it.  I added another and
>>>> would like to have both drives seen by the system as one 160G drive.
>>
>>> You can't do that.  UFS won't let you coalesce two file systems.  Neither
>>> will any other file system that I can think of.
>>
>> It sounded like he was asking about growfs(8).  I haven't used it, but
>> wouldn't that work?
>
> It sounds to me like he is talking about software raid.
> Take a look at the 'vinum' stuff.

That's what he's talking about.

> But, I don't think you can do it to your root filesystem.

That's not what he's talking about.

Greg
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