From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 29 22:53:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4043416A402 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:53:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kmf@fischer.org.za) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0832213C461 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:53:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kmf@fischer.org.za) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so1067671wri for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:53:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.160.2 with SMTP id i2mr4463259hue.1170111227535; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:53:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.24.28.161? ( [196.11.241.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 16sm6420480hui.2007.01.29.14.53.37; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:53:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <45BE0D1A.5090405@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <45BE0D1A.5090405@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Karl Fischer Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:52:56 +0200 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Multiple Directories for Jails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:53:49 -0000 On 29 Jan 2007, at 5:04 PM, Bj=F6rn K=F6nig wrote: > Karl Fischer schrieb: >> Hi >> I'm a n00b to freebsd and jails is there away that I can specify >> multiple Directories in the jails.conf ? >> JAIL_HOME=3D"/data1; /data2" etc. > > What are you trying to do or what do you expect? > > A file system hierarchy can only have one root directory. You =20 > probably want to play with unionfs. You can read about its concept =20 > here: http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS > > Regards Bj=F6rn Hi Basically the Drive that the Jails are hosted on is running out of =20 space. By adding another mounted Partition I will have more space. If I add a new Drive to the Machine ... mount it under /data2 can I just stop the jails and copy them across =20 modify the jails.conf and start it up ? I guess the best procedure should be to back them up and restore them =20= there ? Thanks for the help Karl ----------------------------------------------- Karl Fischer Rock on ! Email : kmf@fischer.org.za Jabber : kmf@jabber.org Skype : kmfischer Personal Site : http://fischer.org.za -----------------------------------------------