Hi
Using my dietpi as a media center with plex. I have a 3TB usb disk for my media and have just purchased a new 4tb usb disk. I wish to use them both.
Is there a simple way of me combining both drives so they can be seen as one? Don't want to have to have to handle two separate libraries with different paths in sonarr and radaar and plex etc.
On windows there are quite a few programs that can do this but I'm new to linux. I read about LVM but my setup doesn't use that, not sure if it even can combine like I'm looking for.
thanks
2nd Usb Drive
Re: 2nd Usb Drive
Hi,
many thanks for your request. By default, DietPi did not offer such a function. But using LVM is quite a good option to perform what you are looking for. I found a nice guide on the web
https://askubuntu.com/questions/7002/ho ... one-volume
It just require little adjustments to fit to you environment. On a short test on my VM it was working quit well
As you can see, I have 2 disks (sdb + sdc) each 10G. I created a LVM media volume of 19GB
in theory you could create a LVM volume on your new disk, copy all your data from old hdd to the new LVM volume. Once completed, add the old hdd to the LVM volume.
many thanks for your request. By default, DietPi did not offer such a function. But using LVM is quite a good option to perform what you are looking for. I found a nice guide on the web
https://askubuntu.com/questions/7002/ho ... one-volume
It just require little adjustments to fit to you environment. On a short test on my VM it was working quit well
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root@DietPiVM1:~# lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint
NAME FSTYPE LABEL SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 10G 0 disk
└─sda1 ext4 10G 0 part /
sdb 10G 0 disk
└─sdb1 LVM2_member 10G 0 part
└─media-volume ext4 19G 0 lvm /mnt/media
sdc 10G 0 disk
└─sdc1 LVM2_member 10G 0 part
└─media-volume ext4 19G 0 lvm /mnt/media
sr0 1024M 0 rom
sr1 1024M 0 rom
root@DietPiVM1:~#
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root@DietPiVM1:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 489M 0 489M 0% /dev
tmpfs 99M 3.0M 96M 3% /run
/dev/sda1 9.8G 3.2G 6.2G 35% /
tmpfs 494M 0 494M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 494M 0 494M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1.0G 4.0K 1.0G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 50M 12K 50M 1% /var/log
tmpfs 99M 0 99M 0% /run/user/0
/dev/mapper/media-volume 19G 44M 18G 1% /mnt/media
Pls let us know if a solution is working. This could help others if they hit by similar situation. Your DietPi Team
Re: 2nd Usb Drive
Btrfs and XFS file systems have native support for multiple drives per volume, but I never tried it myself. Would be awesome to add such functionality to dietpi-drive_manager but as always, more ideas/tasks than time
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