Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:06:20 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis <chris@tci.com> To: "Marius M.Rex" <mariusrex@netscape.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A partition over multiple hard disks? Message-ID: <36E5EFBC.93294EE8@tci.com> References: <19990310013643.2963.qmail@www0v.netaddress.usa.net>
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"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
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