From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 16:36:23 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 042F837B401; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A08343E42; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:36:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g9LNa8W26366; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:36:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3DB49152.2010801@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:44:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Jerry McAllister , Kirk Strauser , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data? References: <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20021021232957.GC92883@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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" 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