From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 17:37:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www0v.netaddress.usa.net (www0v.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CC3714FC9 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:37:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mariusrex@netscape.net) Received: (qmail 2964 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Mar 1999 01:36:43 -0000 Message-ID: <19990310013643.2963.qmail@www0v.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.51 by www0v via web-mailer(M3.0.0.13) on Wed Mar 10 01:36:43 GMT 1999 Date: 9 Mar 99 20:36:43 EST From: Marius M.Rex To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A partition over multiple hard disks? X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.0.0.13) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the realm of theory, it would seem possible to spread one Un*x part= ition over multiple physical hard disks. Now, I know that if I wanted to, I co= uld spread the /usr partition over multiple hard disks if I separately mounte= d /usr in one place, and say /usr/src somewhere else... /usr/local somewher= e else...et el. That would be easy enough to do, and a little editing at /etc/fstab would get them mounted nicely. = But is there a way to seamlessly spread a large partition like /usr ov= er multiple disks without separately mounting subdirectories? It would be k= ind of a pain to go through and plan how much space I needed for the subdirectories, and parse out each a piece here and there. (As I could miscalculate and regret it later.) Is there any way I could get my FreeB= SD box to just mount /usr over two or more hard disks, as if I had simply allotted the total space to one mounting of /usr on one physical disk? = I am admittedly a Newbie. I am currently running a 2.2.5 system, but= will be upgrading to 3.1-Release in a week or so. My system is made up of har= dware pieces that I could scrounge up, so I have a number of small physical har= d disks that I would like to treat as one physical disk under FreeBSD. Is = there any remedy to my problem, or am I just going to have to go through and ma= ke some calculations myself, as I separately mount subdirectories? I am wil= ling to read for myself, so feel free to point me to any documentation I have overlooked, if that will save bandwidth. Thank you for your consideratio= n. = B.T.W. - I read the list, you can reply here. = = = Marius = All life is a dance; = I just wish I wasn't so clumsy. ____________________________________________________________________ More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at htt= p://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message