combining drive space into one big space

[David Foster]

Thank you, LVM2 is exactly what I needed.


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:37:09 +0000, Peter Simpson
<ubuntu at petethetree.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 04:02, David Foster wrote:
> > Ok I got questions,
> >  I have been running mythtv on Ubuntu for three months and am running out
> > of hard drive space :)  It chews up about 2 gigs an hour then if it has
> > enough free space it transcodes them down to 650megs and hour.
> >  I have one 40g drive with a 30gig partition devoted to recorded
> > shows, mounted as /myth , the others, /root /cache and swap ocuppy the
> > rest. So /myth in now almost full and I have in my hand a extra 30gig
> > hard drive that I plan to stuff in.
> >  My question is, can I combine the exsisting 30gig /myth with the new
> > drive(after I freshly format it) to make one big 60g /myth. I was
> > thinking possibly a configuring them in an array? or can I just mount
> > them both as /myth and let the files fly.
> >  One sticking point may be that I don't really want to loose the
> > 27gig of shows that are on there right now.
> >  Any suggestions would be appreciated( know, fork out the money and
> > buy a bigger drive).
> > --
> > David Foster
> > dbfoster at gmail.com
> >
> > Ubuntu/Hoary
> > Durron 687/256m/40g/gforce440/wintvGo/packard bell remote (your basic
> > getto system :)
> 
> The solution to your query is something called LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
> 
> This allows you to do precisely what you are attempting.
> 
> I currently have it combining 4 disks into one almighty(?!) 28GB partition.
> (There are two 20GB and two 4GB disks).
> 
> I found the following howtos most constructive:
> 
> http://deb.riseup.net/storage/lvm2/
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml
> 
> What you will need to do is create a new Logical Volume on your new hard disk,
> then copy over the data from your old hard disk and then expand the volume
> onto your new hard disk.
> 
> Good luck,
> TreeBoy
> 
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David Foster
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