a second hard drive

[Doug Pollard]

Brian McKee wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Yes I  believe I would like both drives to act as one that way Cinelerra 
will be able to use the nearly 500 GB space to work in and store video. 
I have a couple external usb drives to back up with.              Doug


Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x028ef790

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       23993   192723741   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           23994       24321     2634660    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           23994       24321     2634628+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x09a43bda

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       30401   244196001   83  Linux