From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:57:24 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 1969937B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9B343E7B for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 768E18147E; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:27:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:27:19 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data? Message-ID: <20021021015719.GD14294@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <009801c2789c$2f9ee910$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> <20021021011548.GB14294@wantadilla.lemis.com> <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> 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 20:47:08 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > 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? growfs will allow you to keep the contents of the "first" file system (i.e. the one at the beginning of the new plex), but it would destroy the contents of the "second" file system. 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