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signature16
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 Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: Multiple HD in 1 folder |
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| How can I mount multiple hard drives in one folder? I want to have my /home/shares file to have around 500gb, but I want to be split between my two 250gb hard drives. How do I go about doing that? |
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ectospasm
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| will i be able to continue adding more hard drives to the logical volume? |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| Have you considered software raid? |
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ectospasm
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:08 am Post subject: |
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| signature16 wrote: | | will i be able to continue adding more hard drives to the logical volume? |
Yes, you will. And depending on which filesystem you choose, you can even grow the logical volume without unmounting the partition. I know you can do this with reiser3. The last time I tried it with ext3 it couldn't be done, but that was using RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 over a month ago (so it probably still can't be done).
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| Aries-Belgium wrote: | | Have you considered software raid? |
Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks are an option, but he wasn't asking about mitigating disk failures. What you're suggesting is possibly Linear RAID or RAID-0, which will give him the use of all of his physical drive capacity but no redundancy. And I don't see anywhere that adding a disk to Linear or RAID-0 is possible (but I could be wrong).
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