a second hard drive

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>    I have  a second hard drive on my computer.  I had  problems with my
> Ubuntu 8.04, of my own making.  My solution was to install Ubuntu and
> Cinelerra on my second drive so I could continue learning and getting
> the problems straight on sda1 and at the same time work on video in
> Cinelerra.  I kind of know how that one armed paper hanger felt now . :-)
>    Thanks to the help on this list most problems in that first
> installation are resolved, Thanks to all of you.  You folks are
> appreciated although I'm sure you wonder sometimes?
>      Now to configuring and getting my machine as I want it. I would
> now like to make the second drive a slave of sda1 so that when doing
> video the huge amount of hard drive space needed will be usable in both
> drives. I want cinelerra ro be able to work back an forth on both drives.
>     To get started I went into Gparted and made a single partition  it
> is /dev/sdb1.  Can someone either send me to a good tutorial  or give me
> the commands to make this drive and partition   a slave to the first
> drive.


Doug - do you want both drives to look like one big drive to Ubuntu?

You can 'span' them like that with LVM, but it will be a bit of work
to accomplish it on an already installed machine.

A quick 'sudo fdisk -l' to show us your existing partitions etc would
likely be helpful.

Brian