[GTALUG] Making a second HD transparent to the user

[William Park]

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'.
-- 
William

On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 11:51:58AM -0400, phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca 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