RE: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>Hi,
>
>This may seem like a daft question but how do you use multiple disks on a
>linux system?  I tried to use two IDE drives on one of my linux boxes and
>got in a right mess. The trouble seemed to be that I couldn't find a way to
>spread a /usr partition across the two disks and so I finished up with one
>drive holding the main bits but half empty and the other with all the
>programs self installed into the /usr partition (which was all I had put on
>this drive) and completely full. What was particularly annoying was that the
>'main' drive was 3.4Gb and had more 'unusable' space than the 1Gb secondary
>drive. In the end I got p***ed off with it and reinstalled linux (Mandrake
>7.1) completely on the 'main' drive and put windoze on the 1Gb drive. It
>would, however, be nice to get back to a fully linux machine with both
>drives working - and maybe add another 850MB one I've got hanging about.

 I had a good reply drafted, and then I killed the browser. Doh.

 Easy way is to mount partitions on different disks (i.e. I have / on one and
/usr on the other).
 If you want to have one filesystem (i.e. /usr) to span two disks (generally 
bad
idea) then you can use the RAID/MD options in the kernel.
 There is an option is append one disk to another, so two small disks look 
like
one big one.
 RAID has a whole load of options...read the HOWTO, it'll be easier.

 Baz.

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