On 23/07/13 20:47, Robin Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a home server, running Ubuntu, which has a large hard drive on which I store photos, videos, music etc, which is mounted at /files. Unfortunately I'm running out of space on that drive, and am just about to purchase an extra drive. My question is:
>
> Is there a way to 'combine' these drives in some way so that they both appear under the mount point /files, and where the data is actually stored is transparent?
>
> Obviously I could put all of my photos and music on the old drive, and all of my videos on the new drive, and mount them separately - but from previous experience I've found that gets very difficult very quickly, as drives fill up and you end up with categories split between drives.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for how to go about this? Ideally I'd like whatever method it is to not require completely wiping my current drive - it would be possible (if I can find a friend with an empty 2Tb external hard drive that I can borrow), but it'd be a bit of a pain.
You need LVM (Logical Volume Management) to combine drives of different
sizes. However, you will probably need to wipe your drive to set it up
with LVM (and safer to have a backup anyway before you try things like
this!)
Tony
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