From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 20:24:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ciao.cc.columbia.edu (ciao.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230F314BEA for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-22-9.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.47.93]) by ciao.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA04248; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:24:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36E5F3D1.B13E3D15@confusion.net> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:23:45 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Tubutis Cc: "Marius M.Rex" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A partition over multiple hard disks? References: <19990310013643.2963.qmail@www0v.netaddress.usa.net> <36E5EFBC.93294EE8@tci.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG vinum does just that. I'm not yet up on using it so I'll let someone else explain the details, but there's a web page about the basics at www.lemis.org/vinum.html or something to that effect. It essentially does what you're looking to do, and there's no need to mount /usr subsections separately. It also offers RAID 0 functionality if you want. It can't quite do everything, as recently pointed out it can't yet be the root directory, but its still pretty darn good. I hope to start using it more effectively myself soon enough. Vinum comes with the base installation of FreeBSD Chris Tubutis wrote: > "Marius M.Rex" wrote: > > > > In the realm of theory, it would seem possible to spread one Un*x partition > > over multiple physical hard disks. Now, I know that if I wanted to, I could > > spread the /usr partition over multiple hard disks if I separately mounted > > /usr in one place, and say /usr/src somewhere else... /usr/local somewhere > > 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 over > > multiple disks without separately mounting subdirectories? It would be kind > > 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 FreeBSD > > 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? > > SGI IRIX can do this, but I don't know of any such functionality in > FreeBSD (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just means that I've never > seen it). > > ct > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message