Hi
Why not use externally mounted drives in a drive caddy. This is easy with
sata drives. It also helps the environment by being only powered up when you
need it.
There are bash scripts which enable the drive to be picked up when connected
and bash scripts to turn the drive off when not needed.
My method of use is to power up the external drive. Copy the data to a ram
drive. Switch of the exteranal drive and examine the data at my leisure.
Similarly when downloading several big iso files. I download the data to a ram
drive. I switch on the external drive and then transfer the data to the
exteran drive.
This also enables me to use a lower wattage power supply.
John Eayrs
On Tuesday 23 July 2013 20:47:31 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin
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