Can partitions span more than one drive?

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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400
John Almberg <jalmberg at identry.com> wrote:


> Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup
> partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm
> guessing not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a
> partition is part of a slice, 

You can join 2 partitions into 1 with gconcat. OTOH that would wipe any
existing data as you would need to put a new filesystem on the combined
partition.