a second hard drive

[NoOp]

On 09/02/2008 10:03 AM, Doug Pollard wrote:
> Brian McKee wrote:

>> 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
> 
> 

Cinerella can save & use second drive without having to set up sdb1 as
an LVM. Unless you have a video that is over 250GB, I'd recommend just
leaving as is & following the instructions in the links from my previous
post to automount etc., sdb1.