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Once your have VortexBox 2.4 installed on your primary drive your data will be stored on your /storage partition. | Once your have VortexBox 2.4 installed on your primary drive your data will be stored on your /storage partition. | ||
- | Now you will want to expand the LVM (logical volume manager) partition to span multiple drives. | + | Now you will want to expand the /storage LVM (logical volume manager) partition to span multiple drives. |
Usually your primary drive is /dev/sda and your second drive is /dev/sdb | Usually your primary drive is /dev/sda and your second drive is /dev/sdb | ||
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If you want more then 2 drives on your storage partition you can keep using these steps to add more drives. Keep in mind if any of the drives fail you will not longer be able to mount the /storage partition. | If you want more then 2 drives on your storage partition you can keep using these steps to add more drives. Keep in mind if any of the drives fail you will not longer be able to mount the /storage partition. | ||
- | A good backup on your data is required! | + | __NOTE:__ A good backup of your data is required! |