combining drive space into one big space

[Philippe Landau]

hello David

> Ok I got questions,
>  I have been running mythtv on Ubuntu for three months and am running out of
> hard drive space :)  It chews up about 2 gigs an hour then if it has
> enough free space it transcodes them down to 650megs and hour.
>  I have one 40g drive with a 30gig partition devoted to recorded
> shows, mounted as /myth , the others, /root /cache and swap ocuppy the
> rest. So /myth in now almost full and I have in my hand a extra 30gig
> hard drive that I plan to stuff in.
>  My question is, can I combine the exsisting 30gig /myth with the new
> drive(after I freshly format it) to make one big 60g /myth. I was
> thinking possibly a configuring them in an array? or can I just mount
> them both as /myth and let the files fly.
>  One sticking point may be that I don't really want to loose the
> 27gig of shows that are on there right now.
>  Any suggestions would be appreciated( know, fork out the money and
> buy a bigger drive).
first, if you don't want to loose data, you need a backup.
harddisks, cds, any media can go bad anytime.
here, the 200 GB drives are now the cheapest per GB (60 cents).

kind regards     philippe