Samba server multiple hard drives

[xjoker]

Hi I am new here and I had a question. I just setup a samba server at my house and I want to add more hard drives to it. Is there away to add the hard drives and have them viewed on my windows machines as a single huge drive. I dont want to use RAID 0.

[obviousheart221]

If you absolutely don't want to RAID the disks, then the only other way that you can make that work is if you mount the new drive in a folder of the drive that the SAMBA users are mounting. For example, if desktop users mount /home/user, then you'll have to mount the new drive in /home/user/newdrive or something along those lines.

[SlowJet]

LVM Logical Volume Manager

Where have you been for the last year and a half?

pvcreate /dev/hdb /dev/hdd /dev/hde

vgcreate --addtag samba24x7 VolGroupSamba24x7 /dev//hdb /dev/hdd /dev/hde

vgdisplay VolGroupSamba24x7
# find this in the list of vgdisply <free number of physical extents for this volume group>
#use it for lvcreate LogicalExtentsNum

lvcreate --extents LogicalExtentsNum --name LogVolSamba01 VolGroupSamba24x7

mke2fs /dev/mapper/VolGroupSamba24x7-LogVolSamba01

vgchange VolGroupSamba24x7 -a samba24x7

mkdir /mnt/sambamnt
mount /dev/mapper/VolGroupSamba24x7-LogVolSamba01

SJ

You may need to play wih the extents or use a --size nnnx