[TriLUG] Linux hard drive questions

[Robert Dale]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Michael Ham <michael at bakedhamgames.net> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Sorry, this is going to be short since I was writing a longer, more detailed
> e-mail, and of course Windows crashed for no reason while I was doing it.
>
> Anyway, the gist of the thing is that I have an old PC running Fedora Core 5
> that is pretty much just a file server.  I have a few hard drives on there
> that both contain some of my music files. I would like to combine the two
> partitions into one large partition, even though it is across two hard
> drives so that I can have it as one large folder for my iTunes library (yes,
> I know... it's not Linux... boo).
>
> It seems like this may be possible with Linux Volume Groups, but I know
> nothing about them except that they exist.  Can someone give me some
> information about how I might go through with this (or if it's even
> possible)?

You can do this with either LVM or RAID 0,

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

-- 
Robert Dale