Hi, On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 02:27:36PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Damon Andrew Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've finished getting the hardware bugs out of my 8 hard drive Media > > Server and I would like to know is there any software out there that > > would merge most of my drives into one device? Not like a RAID just > > take simple drives to make one. > > Yeah, Linux software RAID or LVM will do it.
I'd also recommend LVM. There a couple of ressources about setting up an LVM configuration on Ubuntu: * FileServerOnLVMOnRAID1: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FileServerOnLVMOnRAID1 Don't hesitate to update the wiki guide if it's not relevant anymore. Software RAID can also be setup in a linear mode to merge all your disks together. > I would suggest using LVM: create a "logical volume" that contains all > the individual drives, then use that to store your data. > To be precise, you'd create a "volume group" that contains all your drives ("physical extends") and then create logical volumes in your volume group. All this is explained in the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html. Cheers, -- Mathias -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
