Combining disks in one virtual partition.
Hello, My question for you all is whether or not you can join the partitions of several small hard disks together to form one large-contiuous-virtual root partition. I have quite a few small hard disks but none that are really big enough to be of much service to me. Thank you, Ry
RE: Combining disks in one virtual partition.
-Original Message- From: Simmons-Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:48 AM To: Debian/Gnu Linux Subject: Combining disks in one virtual partition. Hello, My question for you all is whether or not you can join the partitions of several small hard disks together to form one large-contiuous-virtual root partition. I have quite a few small hard disks but none that are really big enough to be of much service to me. This is what LVM is for (among other things). If you can run a 2.4 kernel you might be able to do it. I don't know about having root on a logical volume under linux. We did it with hpux years ago. It will depend on boot support. Get the kernel source and read the docs... jim Thank you, Ry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Combining disks in one virtual partition.
options LVM, linear, or raid in the kernel. I wouldn't do it with root however, as one screwed up disk could mean the death of your system. My suggestion: one disk as a root disk ~50M, its slave and the entire secondary chain in LVM (2.4 kernel stuff) as /usr. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Simmons-Davis wrote: Hello, My question for you all is whether or not you can join the partitions of several small hard disks together to form one large-contiuous-virtual root partition. I have quite a few small hard disks but none that are really big enough to be of much service to me. Thank you, Ry -- You have paid nothing for the preceding, therefore it's worth every penny you've paid for it: if you did pay for it, might I remind you of the immortal words of Phineas Taylor Barnum regarding fools and money? Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
