[GTALUG] Making a second HD transparent to the user

[James Knott]

On 04/09/2016 11:51 AM, 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
>
>

Yes.  What you can do is move the contents of a directory, such as /home
to the new drive and then mount it on /home as is normally done with
mounting partitions.