Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:44:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data? Message-ID: <3DB49152.2010801@potentialtech.com> References: <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20021021232957.GC92883@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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. I just did this over the weekend for a client. Added a drive to an existing vinum mirror set, and then used growfs to increase the filesystem size. Worked great! (Well done, Greg, and whoever did the growfs stuff) However, I don't know how/if you can do it with a filesystem that isn't already a vinum volume. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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