Merging drives in Linux

[TheTallGuy]

Hi guys. So today I decided after thinking long about it that I would leave Windows and start using Linux. So I download Linux Pop OS because I saw the recent video on LTT that they reviewed this operating system.  Now I have a problem that I can't fix on my own and I can't really find a good explanation on Google. I want to merge 2 drives together. I have a 500GB and a 1TB drive, and I want to merge them into 1 drive of 1.5TB. Can someone explain how to do this? I already tried this with the program Gparted but I did not work for me. 

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, Etrecz said:

I want to merge 2 drives together. I have a 500GB and a 1TB drive, and I want to merge them into 1 drive of 1.5TB. Can someone explain how to do this? I already tried this with the program Gparted but I did not work for me. 

Are you talking about actual different drives or are you talking about partitions? You can't "merge" different drives together, unless you setup a RAID.

[TheTallGuy]

Just now, WereCatf said:

Are you talking about actual different drives or are you talking about partitions? You can't "merge" different drives together, unless you setup a RAID. 

I am talking about 2 different drives. If I can't ''merge'' them how do I setup raid then?

[myselfolli]

5 minutes ago, Etrecz said:

I am talking about 2 different drives. If I can't ''merge'' them how do I setup raid then?

RAID isn't what you're looking for either, you're trying to mount the one drive into the other one. You can look up tutorials for mounting drives in Linux online, they are usually quite good from my experience.

 

If you run into any problems, don't hesitate to ask

[TheTallGuy]

1 minute ago, myselfolli said:

RAID isn't what you're looking for either, you're trying to mount the one drive into the other one. You can look up tutorials for mounting drives in Linux online, they are usually quite good from my experience.

 

If you run into any problems, don't hesitate to ask

That's actually what I mean yeah. But I don't know the right words for all these things haha. I will look up some video's

[Helibert]

i think LVM is what you are looking for

[TheTallGuy]

Just now, Helibert said:

i think LVM is what you are looking for

What is that exactly? Do you need to download this, is this already in Linux?

[Helibert]

LVM is a abstraction layer between your operating system and physical hard drives. What that means is your physical hard drives and partitions are no longer tied to the hard drives and partitions they reside on. Rather, the hard drives and partitions that your operating system sees can be any number of separate hard drives pooled together or in a software RAID.

From

Quick Google Search:

https://www.howtogeek.com/211937/how-to-use-lvm-on-ubuntu-for-easy-partition-resizing-and-snapshots/

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/40702/how-to-manage-and-use-lvm-logical-volume-management-in-ubuntu/

[TheTallGuy]

9 minutes ago, Helibert said:

LVM is a abstraction layer between your operating system and physical hard drives. What that means is your physical hard drives and partitions are no longer tied to the hard drives and partitions they reside on. Rather, the hard drives and partitions that your operating system sees can be any number of separate hard drives pooled together or in a software RAID.

From

Quick Google Search:

https://www.howtogeek.com/211937/how-to-use-lvm-on-ubuntu-for-easy-partition-resizing-and-snapshots/

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/40702/how-to-manage-and-use-lvm-logical-volume-management-in-ubuntu/

I found some video's explaining how to setup LVM in Linux but I don't understand anything they are doing

[TheTallGuy]

28 minutes ago, myselfolli said:

RAID isn't what you're looking for either, you're trying to mount the one drive into the other one. You can look up tutorials for mounting drives in Linux online, they are usually quite good from my experience.

 

If you run into any problems, don't hesitate to ask

Do you maybe have a video for me explaing how to do this? I can't figure it out on my own. Sorry for being such a Linux noobie