From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 16:32:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD82C37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4650343E6E for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:31:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8A540812B3; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:59:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:59:57 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Kirk Strauser , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data? Message-ID: <20021021232957.GC92883@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message