On Sunday, 20 October 2002 at 17:52:52 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>> From what I've read, it appears that if I create a concatenated volume
> using vinum or ccd, I will destroy whatever data I already have on the
> disks.  Is this correct?

Sometimes.

> Is there anyway to do it without destroying the data?

Yes.  If you have 265 sectors free space before a partition, you can
start a Vinum drive at that point, overlapping the partition, and
define the space taken by that partition to be a single subdisk.

> I have one 80G archive drive and have filled it.  I added another
> and would like to have both drives seen by the system as one 160G
> drive.

You can't do that.  UFS won't let you coalesce two file systems.
Neither will any other file system that I can think of.

Greg
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