[GTALUG] Making a second HD transparent to the user

[Lennart Sorensen]

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?

If your original install uses LVM (which certainly some distributions
have done for a while), then extending the LVM is simple.  Otherwise,
things are more complicated.

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Len Sorensen