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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?
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RW wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400
> John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote:
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> 
>> 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.

No, you can always use growfs to expand the filesystem.
But of course, the usual warnings apply, read carefully the
growfs manual...

Nikos