On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 11:23 -0700, Carter Campbell wrote: > I was wondering if anyone can tell me if it is possible to mount a drive > (single partition) to a nested directory on an existing Samba mount > point and have the entire structure considered one drive? > > The situation is this. I have a large drive mounted to a share called > "/pub". This has been identified as my Samba mount point and all works > as it should. What I would like to do is add a subdirectory to the > drive mounted to the "/pub" share point and mount an additional drive to > that. I would like to be able to have this second drive treated as an > extention of the original disk, under Samba. This would mean that the > capacity of the second drive would be pooled with the first drive, on > which it is mounted. > > For example: > I have a 200GB hard drive mounted to the directory "/pub". I would like > to add an additional 60GB drive to this. Can I create a directory on > the 200GB drive called "/pub/temp" and mount the 60GB drive to that > mount point? Then be able to have Samba consider the whole mess as a > single 260GB drive? > > I have already tried this (with my limited knowledge) and all that seems > to happen is that the Samba identifed disk capacity size remains at the > 200GB mark. The additional 60GB isn't recognized. > > Would this be possible, or am I blowing smoke out my lower orifice? If > it is possible, how would I do this? Is there any documentation that > would explain something like this somewhere? What would this be called > if I were to look for it (I haven't the slightest idea how to start > searching for such a thing)? > > Thanks to all in advance. > > Carter Campbell > Calgary Alberta > Canada
short answer: yes it will work fine. longer answer: 200GB disk must be mounted before you can mount the 60GB disk. samba might mis-report size, but so what? does df -h show that the combined total is 260GB? lvm or evms would be a better way, but that would require quite a bit of work since the disks are already up and have data. -C -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
