Adding a new hard drive, and using geom
- From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 01:13:17 -0500
I bought a second hard drive for my computer since my /usr partition was getting full. I don't want to deal with hardware raid since I don't want to be dependent on a certain hardware vendor or chipset, so I'm wanting to go with geom. I'd prefer to not have to backup all my data(I know I should anyway, but it's a 500gb hard drive, and drives are growing faster than backup solutions). Would it be possible to do a geom stripe to expand /usr and keep all the data or would I just need to backup everything, and then put it all back? If I must deal with backing up and erasing, and considering that the current /usr and the new drive aren't the same size, how would I go about mirroring other paritions and striping /usr? Would that still be easily bootable(no special hacks or workarounds)?
Any tips or other recommendations would be appreciated.
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