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Date:      Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:20:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions)
Subject:   Re: 2 disks, 1 partition (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199610190920.LAA14624@allegro.lemis.de>

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Greg Lehey writes:
> 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.

Sorry, this isn't the only solution.  As a number of people have
suggested, take a look at the ccd driver.

Greg
 



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