Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:56:03 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, jalmberg@identry.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can partitions span more than one drive? Message-ID: <4A953EF3.5010305@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <20090826142221.0807dc75@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <E7324A34-08A0-48A0-86B5-E1C7777097A9@identry.com> <20090826142221.0807dc75@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW wrote: > 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. No, you can always use growfs to expand the filesystem. But of course, the usual warnings apply, read carefully the growfs manual... Nikos
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