Sort of...
- You don't have to copy the whole root filesystem over. You can
mount the new drive as /home or /home/user only, and then copy
over only that directory.
- Or, if you're using mdraid or btrfs, then you can add the new
drive using 'mdadm' or 'btrfs'.
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William
On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 11:51:58AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> The time is coming when I will have to increase my hard drive storage. I
> could backup, replace the current drive with something larger, and then
> copy the backup to the new, larger drive.
>
> Or I could add a second SATA drive. Is it possible to configure that
> second drive so that it seamlessly appears as an increase of size of the
> first drive?
>
> Peter
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