[plug] Filesystem with two HD's

Peter Robinson ribbo at iinet.net.au
Thu Mar 18 15:37:19 WST 1999


On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Greg Raftery wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> On my linux box I have the filesystem mounted on /dev/hda2. I want to
> use a second disk at /dev/hdb1 for extra capacity. I can mount the
> disk ok, but if hda2 uses up all of its space, it doesn't
> automagically start using the second disk.
> 
> Is there anyway for me to set it up so I can do this? ie. use the two
> disks as one seamless filesystem? 

You have to set it up from scratch and use software RAID, that way it will
span a filesystem across multiple disks.

Peter

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