Spanning Samba share

[arachnoid]

I've just filled up the first disk on my NSLU2 (running debian)

I've already added a second disk and partitioned it so that it holds my Swap and a big ext3 partition ready to take some data.

At the moment Samba is sharing out a folder on the first disk called SambaFiles with a share name of SharedFiles.

Is there a way i can span the big partition so that the Samba share called Sharedfiles includes the contents of SambaFiles on the first disk and the contents of the new partition on the second disk?

I thought about mounting the second partion inside SharedFiles but the big problem is that my Music folder constitutes 90% of the contents so moving the Music folder to the second disk and Mounting it back into SambaFiles would just shift the problem a month or so into the future when the second disk fills up.

Is it possible to join /span 2 partitions in linux and then share them using Samba?

Cheers

Russell

 

[arachnoid]

I think LVM looks like the way to go.

I did, of course, forget to mention that I have various spare hard disks kicking about the place. The OS is currently living on its own partition so I'm going to get the SharedData off onto a spare drive and get LVM setup over the other 2 disks.

Then i can rip the contents of the huge amazon parcel that arrived this morning

Thanks everyone for helping out, I'll post the "I just hosed my system" thread later

Russell