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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:38:42 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        lray@aurora.liunet.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions)
Subject:   Re: 2 disks, 1 partition
Message-ID:  <199610180638.IAA24772@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <96101718030944@aurora.liunet.edu> from "lray@aurora.liunet.edu" at Oct 17, 96 06:03:09 pm

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lray@aurora.liunet.edu writes:
>
> I have a pentium running FreeBSD 2.1 that I use as a news server.
> It has a 400 meg IDE, a 2 gig scsii, and I have just added a second
> 2 gig scssi hard disk.  What I need to do is add the additional 2 gig
> of space from the new disk to the /var file system which resides on
> the other scssi disk.  Can anyone please tell me how I can make 1
> partion out of my 2 hdisks?

You can't.  The best thing you can do is to decide how to split /var
between the two disks, and then create appropriate symlinks from /var
to the other file system (which you might call /var2):

  # ln -s /var2/news/comp /var/news

etc.

Greg



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