[caseyc]

I've never had to do this before but my little test server has a two tiny hard drives in it.. One's starting to fill up so I'd like to span the hard drives to make one large volume.

Is there a way to do this without losing my data?

[Dark_Sniper*]

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-R...O-5.html#ss5.5

that mit be able to help you out

[caseyc]

Problem is they're not the same size.. not even close. I can really see the raid setup failing miserably.

[Dark_Sniper*]

size really shouldn't matter to transfer the data to a bigger drive jsut make sure you have a back-up a good one if something does go wrong. Or yopu could back it all up and out it on the new hdd?

[caseyc]

I think you're not really understand what I want to do... Right now I have 2 hard drives... One is 10GB, the other is 15GB.

So right now it looks like this:

HD1 HD2
|------| |------|

I want to combine them to make one large linux partition

HD1&HD2
|---------------|

This can be done in windows quite easily using dynamic volumes and creating a spanned partition, but it seems more difficult in Linux because the only way I've found to do it is by using a RAID array.

[Dark_Sniper*]

linear RAID array will do it, or look into LVM. If no RAID lol then im not sure.