On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:38:45PM -0500, Robert Jacobs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please pardon my ignorance, I had difficulty finding an answer to this in
> the faqs/archives. How can I extend an FFS partition onto a second hard
> drive?
>
> Say I have /var on a dedicated 20ggb hard drive and it got filled up and I
> need to extend all of /var (not mount additional space inside of var) to
> another disk. I was looking at raid/raidframe for this, but is there a way
> to simply extend the partition onto another disk? Not raid0 or anything.
>
> thanks,
> Robert
You may want to look into ccd(4), which is like RAID but built into the
kernel and simpler. Pretty much complex enough for your needs, though.
To the best of my knowledge, there's no way to tell ffs 'this is the end
of the disk, please see /dev/wd1 for the rest'.
Joachim
