Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives (Allen D. Tate)
Thanks to all who sent answers to my question. I am investigating vinum as I type this. :P __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives
Deceased wrote: Allen D. Tate wrote: I apologize for not being more specific. I want to make at least 80 GB of hard drive space available for my users home directories and if at all possible 110 GB of hard drive space. RAID is not what I'm looking for. Thanks for your replies. :) You still should have a look at vinum, couse i read some where that it can merge the drives so they can look as one. ccd(4) does exactly that and is simple. See the section on Raid in the handbook Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives
I apologize for not being more specific. I want to make at least 80 GB of hard drive space available for my users home directories and if at all possible 110 GB of hard drive space. RAID is not what I'm looking for. Thanks for your replies. :) __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives
Allen D. Tate wrote: I apologize for not being more specific. I want to make at least 80 GB of hard drive space available for my users home directories and if at all possible 110 GB of hard drive space. RAID is not what I'm looking for. Thanks for your replies. :) __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You still should have a look at vinum, couse i read some where that it can merge the drives so they can look as one. Ask grandpa Google, he probably knows the answer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:55:20PM -0700, Allen D. Tate wrote:
I have a machine that I'm getting ready to install FreeBSD 5.4 on and I
have three 40 GB hard drives and I want the two drives that do not have
the core system installed on them symbolically linked to the /home
directory. I am pretty new to FreeBSD (other than installing it a few
times and breaking it to learn) and I've never done a symbolic link
before. Can someone either give a quick tutorial or point me to a
hotwo? Thanks in advance.
man 1 ls
In your case, I'd recommend going through the install as normal,
except designate one of the two drives as your /home. I'm not sure
what you mean by linking *both* of the drives (it doesn't work that
way); just setting one of the other big drives as the /home
mountpoint should do the trick.
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Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:19:40PM -0700, Raistlin Majere wrote:
If you were trying to get the aggregate of the two disks and use them as
/home you could use a RAID card of some kind to convince the OS to see
those two disks as one big disk (using RAID1) and then go through the
standard install, and designate the RAID as the /home partition,...
(Please don't CC me; I read the list : ) )
RAID would be a doable solution, but it's likely overkill for the
user. Another option would be vinum[0] (FreeBSD's logical volume
manager).
[0]A relevant article: http://www.freebsddiary.org/vinum.php
but that has other disadvantages (cost of the RAID card, setup of
the RAID, risk that if one disk dies, you lose all of /home., etc)
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is designed to prevent
the 'one disk goes, so goes /home' problem. RAID1 ('mirroring')
should do just fine mitigating this issue.
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