Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:21:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding a new hard drive, and using geom Message-ID: <20080706081907.J2917@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <266e55c771cbec02a4039641cff631c7@gmail.com> References: <266e55c771cbec02a4039641cff631c7@gmail.com>
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> I bought a second hard drive for my computer since my /usr partition was > getting full. I don't want to deal with hardware raid since I don't want to > be dependent on a certain hardware vendor or chipset, you probably don't have RAID hardware to deal, unless you bough 300 or more $ card. > so I'm wanting to go with geom. I'd prefer to not have to backup all my data(I know I should > anyway, but it's a 500gb hard drive, and drives are growing faster than > backup solutions). Would it be possible to do a geom stripe to expand /usr > and keep all the data or would I just need to backup everything, and then put gconcat will do. gstripe not. if usr is on partition x, and you want to add partition y do: unmount usr dd if=/dev/zero of=y bs=1m (*) gconcat label usr x y growfs /dev/concat/usr fsck_ffs /dev/concat/usr now /dev/concat/usr is your /usr make sure gconcat in kernel is available when booting. * - only to make buggy growfs work without a mess
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