Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:56:03PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis typed: RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg wrote: Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm guessing

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:56:03PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis typed: > RW wrote: > >On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 > >John Almberg wrote: > > > > > >>Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup > >>partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm > >>guessing

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:45:47AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition > to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm guessing > not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a partition is > part of a slice,

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg wrote: Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm guessing not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a partition is part of a slice, Yo

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg wrote: > Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup > partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm > guessing not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a > partition is part of a slice, You can

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Almberg wrote: > Now that I've got my rsnapshot backup server working beautifully, > backing up several servers to a central backup server (I like this a > lot), I have a problem... > > I built my backup server from a machine I had lying around.