Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:06:07 +0000 From: Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: merging discs / filesystems Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20030321143531.02a0aea8@aph2k>
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Hi there. I've got an 4.5 server. It boots and runs off a 1.2Gb IDE drive - I'm planning on upgrading to latest 4.x on a new drive sometime soon.... This server also has five ~120Gb IDE drives mounted at various positions underneath /data, and are shared off via Samba and NFS. Each of these 120's is a separate filesystem. Overall, I've got about 20% free space, however some drives have plenty of space on them, and some are crammed full. The question is ... can I merge all these discs into one filesystem so that I don't need to shuffle stuff about to make space any more, without losing the data already on them, and with the capability to add more drives later? I also like the idea of adding redundancy, maybe RAID 5, even if it means buying another drive. I could do that to help conversion, in any case. Preserving the data is important because I don't have capacity elsewhere on the network to copy everything over, nor backup capacity to copy everything offline in any easy fashion. Current backups only concentrate on critical data and system files; the rest is replaceable, although I don't fancy the idea very much! Thanks in advance for any suggestions Rob. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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