a second hard drive

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:22 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.

>> 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

> 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.


Yes, for sure.  Don't go down the LVM path unless you really need it -
and with 250 gig free I doubt you do.  I was thinking we were
stitching together a couple old 40 gig drives here or something.  For
one thing, it doubles the chance of data loss.

Brian