Personally, I like LVM (Logical Volume Manager). However, this must be set up in advance. It allows multiple physical disks to be "joined" into a logical volume group which can then be split up into logical volumes. These logical volumes can be larger than a physical volume. And you can generally expand a filesystem "on the fly" if there is sufficient space left in the volume group. Look at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
However, in your case, I would likely split the /usr filesystem. I tend to split into /usr vs. /usr/local. I may then split /usr/local down even more if I get a large application. -- John McKown Senior Technical Specialist UICI Insurance Center Applications & Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225 > -----Original Message----- > From: David Booher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Multiple mount points - 3390 DASD Limitations > > > Hello listers, > > I've been pondering this question for some time now. I have > older RAMAC II > DASD arrays that emulate 3390-3's. Each pack is roughly > 2.36Gb. Let's say > a mountpoint, like /usr, starts to get close to 100% > utilization. Is the > appropriate thing to do is create separate mountpoints, like /usr/lib, > /usr/share and devote each of them to their own 3390 pack? > > I am looking at a new SHARK array and that will help me solve > this problem > by emualting larger disks, but is there anything I can do in > the interim? > > Thanks, > Dave >
