Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:55:28 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> Cc: jalmberg@identry.com, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can partitions span more than one drive? Message-ID: <20090828095527.GA30068@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <4A953EF3.5010305@gmx.com> References: <E7324A34-08A0-48A0-86B5-E1C7777097A9@identry.com> <20090826142221.0807dc75@gumby.homeunix.com> <4A953EF3.5010305@gmx.com>
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:56:03PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis typed: > RW wrote: > >On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 > >John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > > > > > >>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... You can not use growfs to expand a gconcat provider to the new gconcat device. Ruben
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