If you google lhammonds ubuntu server tutorial he walks you through the process of setting up LVM on a clean install. He then teaches you how to add a secondary hard disk and how to extend the volumes all done through the Cli of course :)
Very easy to follow tutorial makes LVM a walk in the park.
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On 23 Jul 2013, at 20:53, "James Courtier-Dutton" <james.dutton@???> wrote:
> On 23 July 2013 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.
>
> Google "lvm". A logical volume manager.
> If your existing data is already on a LVM you can expand it to fit two disks.
> If your existing data is not on LVM, you could make the new HDD use LVM, copy all the data from the old to the new drive, and then wipe the old drive and put LVM on it.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James
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