Use new hdd to increase space in specific folder?

Hey guys,
I just installed a new 2TB harddrive and I have an old 300GB drive where all my downloaded TV shows go. Now those 300GB are never enough and I want the folder where the 300GB drive is mounted in (~/down) to be bigger. Naturally, the simplest thing would be to just move everything from ~/down to the new 2TB harddrive (~/vegetius), but then I would have to have a new subfolder in ~/vegetius and I have really gotten used to ~/down being a top level folder in my ~. I thought there has to be some way to achieve what I want here without changing my folder structure.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

kelnoky wrote:But how can I mount the old 300GB drive in ~/down and also mount part of the new drive in the same mountpoint?
You can create a lvm volume group over both drives, to use both at once for the same mountpoint.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lvm
Personally, i would create a sufficiently big partition for the downloads on the new 2TB drive and mount it as Awebb suggested.
Last edited by teateawhy (2013-12-27 13:43:06)

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