[NBLUG/talk] Is it possible to create Virtual Drive/Partition from 2 physical drives?

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Thu May 30 14:05:15 PDT 2013


I was going to suggest LVM as well.  Install the 750 and the 500 into 
server, add them to an LVM volume group, and carve out a 1TB volume from 
that.  Then back up from the 1TB drive to the 1TB LVM volume.

DR

On 05/30/2013 04:46 PM, Jordan Erickson wrote:
> You could look into LVM, RAID-0 or JBOD as a solution to tie both
> physical drives together as one logical.
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> Cheers,
> Jordan
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> On 05/30/2013 01:30 PM, Howard wrote:
>> I've got a 1TB drive that I'm told is failing. Well I don't have a 1TB
>> drive in my system to image to it using ddrescue.
>> I've got an extra 750GB drive, and a 500GB installed with plenty of
>> extra room.
>>
>> Is there some way that I can created some kind of symbolic path using
>> both drives to make up the 1TB needed for imaging the other drive to ??
>>
>> Howard



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