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 > >>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...
You can not use growfs to expand a gconcat provider to the new gconcat device. Ruben _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
