From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 18:00:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E4C16A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:00:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raggen@passagen.se) Received: from av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C301F13C465 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:00:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raggen@passagen.se) Received: by av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 0FCEE37F48; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:00:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94A937E77 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:00:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.31] (90-230-142-213-no41.tbcn.telia.com [90.230.142.213]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8FC37E46 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:00:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46A8E107.2070203@passagen.se> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:59:35 +0200 From: Roger Olofsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: User Questions References: <20070726015647.GA11187@just.puresimplicity.net> <200707252243.30619.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200707252243.30619.lists@jnielsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:00:12 -0000 John Nielsen skrev: > On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: >> I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He >> has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as >> one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe >> doesn't seem like it'd be smart to use with differently-sized drives. Is >> gvinum up to snuff and stable enough to use? Is ccd still supported? What >> would be your tool of choice? > > gconcat, perhaps? > > JN > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Gconcat looks mighty cool, will it be able to concat two devices that already have existing filesystems on them and retain these? Say that ad0 has /usr and ad1 has /home will gconcat preserve these after concat:ing ad0 with ad1?