Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:56:03PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis typed: RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg jalmb...@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

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:56:03PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis typed: RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition to encompass both the current drive and the

Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread John Almberg
Now that I've got my rsnapshot backup server working beautifully, backing up several servers to a central backup server (I like this a lot), I have a problem... I built my backup server from a machine I had lying around. It has two 140G hard drives. I dedicated one drive to a /backup

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Almberg wrote: Now that I've got my rsnapshot backup server working beautifully, backing up several servers to a central backup server (I like this a lot), I have a problem... I built my backup server from a machine I had lying around. It

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg jalmb...@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

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg jalmb...@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

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:45:47AM -0400, John Almberg 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, which