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What distro do you have ? In fedora Logical Volume Manager does just this Combines many disks in one volume. Just fire it up and point it at the two disks Be warned though once converted to LVM you can't see the disks in any other Distro which isn,t running LVM. On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:26 +0100, Paul Hirst wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 12:56 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > > > My first thought was to dd one drive, then the other and combine the > > two image files however I don't have a big enough drive. So I > > wondered if I might be able to cheat and combine the two devices (in > > this case sdc and sdd) into a new device (say sde) so I can retrieve > > anything important off the drives? > > I don't know of anything off the shelf which will do this for you. I > would probably go and write a network block device server to do this > concatenation for you and then mount it up that way. > > Although it sounds a bit extreme the NBD protocol is really simple. You > could probably knockup a server program in whatever language is your > poison. > > > Sophos Plc, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, OX14 3YP, United > Kingdom. > Company Reg No 2096520. VAT Reg No GB 348 3873 20. > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Ten Years in the Making! www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq