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Title: Making many discs appear as one?
Post by: PhilV on April 19, 2004, 11:35:12 AM

Ok, I know that it can be set up so that you can have all the home directories on one disc, and your opperating sys on the other, (I don't know how to do it, just know it can be done!). My question is this tho. I have several small discs, so rather tahn having to buy a new large disc and still have the small ones sat around doing nothing, is it possible to somehow get linux to merge this discs together and just see tehm as one larger storage location?

Thanks,

Phil

Title: Making many discs appear as one?
Post by: mad-dog on April 19, 2004, 12:22:55 PM

U can define the disk for a specfic directory like :
1 disk for /home
1 disk for /var

etc ...

Title: Making many discs appear as one?
Post by: Anonymous on April 19, 2004, 01:17:13 PM

I was thinking tho that most of the storage would be happening in the home directory, and was wondering if it is possible to split this across 2 smaller discs, (without having to explicitly detail which disc each users home directory should be on).

If I did do your previous method where would I make these changes?

Phil

Title: Making many discs appear as one?
Post by: barryf on April 19, 2004, 02:09:02 PM

No, I think you have to decide which users ibays etc go on each disk yourself.

Barry

Title: Making many discs appear as one?
Post by: Anonymous on April 19, 2004, 02:19:01 PM

ok, so my next question is how do i get linux to store certain directories on other drives?

Title: Making many discs appear as one?
Post by: PhilV on April 19, 2004, 11:37:36 PM

Sorry forgot to log in before makig the previous posting!

Title: Making many discs appear as one?
Post by: jpeters on April 20, 2004, 01:33:41 AM

Consider LVM (Logical Volume Management)

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=8704.msg79980#msg79980

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=8704.msg79980#msg79980