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ridwan77 05-17-2011 10:26 AM

Adding 2 more Hard drive as one partion in an already installed Slackware machine
 
Hello there !

Currently I'm running a smaba on slackware 13.1 with a 1TB Hard drive for dumpng files rather than sharing. My partition table is as follows:
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/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/sdb3 /home ext4 defaults 1 2
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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Now that i need to add 2 more 1TB hard drives and I want to stripe these two drives to make one partition for large space. Can anyone help me doing it plzzzz??????
I'm in badly need of doing it......

tsg 05-17-2011 10:42 AM

You're looking to set up a Logical Volume. Start here. I believe this can also be done with RAID, but I have no experience with it.

zordrak 05-17-2011 12:08 PM

You can use RAID0 for this but you're much more at risk of data loss, I don't recommend it.

Plug in disks 2 & 3. They will be /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. Follow the link above to create a volume group containing both new disks as physical volumes. Then create a single logical volume across all available space. Format it as XFS unless you want to lose a lot of space.


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