The only way I can think of is to have original drive in a LVM configuration you then add the secondary drive and extend the Volume Group across both drives.
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On 23 Jul 2013, at 20:47, "Robin Wilson" <robin@???> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin
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