>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> Well folks, after all the great suggestions regarding my
Joseph> planned SOHO setup & administration I thought I'd ask the
Joseph> next question that comes to my feeble little mind.
Joseph> Is it possible to split the /home mounts over several
Joseph> drives / machines and still refer to them as /home. Does
Maybe there's some way to do this with symlinks, but I believe that
the standard way to do this is to put the /home/[username] directories
on whatever NFS machine(s) you choose, and then export them from the
NFS machine(s).
So, instead of
/home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
in /etc/exports
it would be
/home/amy 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
in one NFS machine's /etc/exports and
/home/ben 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
on another NFS machine's /etc/exports
Joseph> NIS / NFS handle this (I know RTFM and I am it's just that
Joseph> "inquiring minds gotta know" and I haven't gotten that far
Joseph> YET). I suppose this would be a problem with ISP's as
Joseph> they add users with each requiring drive space. Perhaps a
Joseph> better way to phrase the question is how does one grow
Joseph> their required /home space, does one simply substitute a
Joseph> larger drive as the old one fills or can you gracefully
Joseph> expand your /home partition across multiple drives?
AFAIK, you need to plan / estimate how much space will be required by
the user, then dedicate hard drive space to that user. Try 'man
quota' and 'man edquota'.
I do not believe that one directory can span multiple disks, physical
or otherwise, in Linux, at this stage in development.
(Welcome to system administration.)
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