Michael, I really don't want to repartition--again! But yes, your idea is intresting.
If there really isn't any other option (really? no-one has ever had this problem in the past?), I was thinking of something like this: * Inside each disk, at the root level, create a single directory, call it ROOTDIR01 for DISK1, ROOTDIR02 for disk2 etc. * Modify the entries in smb.conf like so: [STORAGE01] path = /mnt/DISK1/ROOTDIR01 Guest OK = false ... etc... so, if no disk is mounted, we have only /mnt/DISK1 but no ROOTDIR01. If the disk is mounted, the ROOTDIR01 is then visible and gets shared as [STORAGE01] Also, the clients see [STORAGE01] as their root dir, ignoring the ROOTDIR01 sub-level This is very crude, I wonder if it might work. > Wouldn't it be very simple to just create a VERY small partition (e.g. 10MB) > on the main drive > (the one that your system disk is on), and mount it on e.g. /mnt. > > Then, even if one of your disks can't mount for some reason, only this very > small partition will > fill up => no problem for the rest of the system. > > You would still have to configure your other machines to handle disk full > failures and maybe > subsequently try another share... > > > >Michael > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
