Hi there I have recently got hold of an old PCI promise IDE controller and 2 large (120 and 200GB) IDE hardrive which my department was going to chuck. Having installed it in the computer, I wanted to do something fancy and have tried to read up on my options on making the two drives appear as one huge partition which I can put movies and all sorts onto. My niggle is that I am still dual booting with windows and occasionally like to access and write to these partitions. I am currently in a happy configuration on my original disk which has a large ext3 partition on it. I have installed EXT2 IFS driver which enables me to write and read to thelinux partition in windows flawlessly. I was wondering if there was a way I could get both new drives to appear as one partition in both linux and windows? Has anyone got any suggestions or stories on what they have done? I am thinking of a RAID linear as the drive is not going to be critical and I simple want the convenience of having one large partition than the ability to write to it or have redunancies etc.
Here's my fdisk if it helps (ps. yes I know I have a lot of partitions. my first job is going to be to some how move evyerhting temporarily to my new drives wipe the old one and then start afresh with the right parition sizes i.e less for windows
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Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1324 10634998+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1325 7698 51199155 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 7699 24321 133524247+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 7699 7711 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 7712 7773 497983+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 7774 8382 4891761 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 8383 9356 7823623+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 9357 9965 4891761 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 9966 22124 97667136 83 Linux
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks.
