Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:22:21 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can partitions span more than one drive? Message-ID: <20090826142221.0807dc75@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <E7324A34-08A0-48A0-86B5-E1C7777097A9@identry.com> References: <E7324A34-08A0-48A0-86B5-E1C7777097A9@identry.com>
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup > partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm > guessing not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a > partition is part of a slice, You can join 2 partitions into 1 with gconcat. OTOH that would wipe any existing data as you would need to put a new filesystem on the combined partition.
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