mount 2 usb hard drives to same mount point

[jingo_man]

i have an existing usb disk mounted in my filesystem, which has now run out of space.

i would like to buy an additional usb hard drive and mount it at the same directory as the existing disk, i.e. to expand the size of this directory.

is this possible?

many thanks,

jingo_man

[dfxdeimos]

Now I am a total linux n00b, but I did a google search and came up with the following...

Now I do not think you can mount your second drive to the SAME folder as your existing drive, as to extend the capacity of the disk. (Like 'striping' the two drives)

The only solution that I found in my quick search was simply to mount the new drive to a different folder ( i.e. /mnt/usbdrive & /mnt/usbdrive2 )

Here is a link to the article I found:

Mounting an External USB Drive in Linux

Of course there may be a totally different solution that I, as a n00b, am not aware of.

Hope this is helpful.

[dfxdeimos]

I just had a second thought as I hit the post button above...

It may be possible to mount the second drive as a folder inside your first drive.

Maybe try something like... ( Assuming your first USB drive is /mnt/usbdriveOLD )

mkdir /mnt/usbdriveOLD/extended
mount /dev/usbdriveNEW /mnt/usbdriveOLD/extended

Seems like it might work...

Obviously replace your "usbdriveOLD" and "usbdriveNEW" with the proper path the the respective devices.

[mirmigois]

I have not dan it for usbDisks but i have dan it for internal sata. I think you can dan it with lvm.