Can partitions span more than one drive?

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

RW wrote:
> 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.

No, you can always use growfs to expand the filesystem.
But of course, the usual warnings apply, read carefully the
growfs manual...

Nikos