From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:15:54 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 4695C37B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CD643E97 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:15:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DBE358133C; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:45:48 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:45:48 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data? Message-ID: <20021021011548.GB14294@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <009801c2789c$2f9ee910$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <009801c2789c$2f9ee910$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> 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 Sunday, 20 October 2002 at 17:52:52 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> From what I've read, it appears that if I create a concatenated volume > using vinum or ccd, I will destroy whatever data I already have on the > disks. Is this correct? Sometimes. > Is there anyway to do it without destroying the data? Yes. If you have 265 sectors free space before a partition, you can start a Vinum drive at that point, overlapping the partition, and define the space taken by that partition to be a single subdisk. > 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. 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