Re: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Thanks Baz,

I'll have a look at the RAID howto, it's not something I thought about
before. You're right that I did really want to spread one partition across a
couple of disks. I don't know whether there may be another way around it by
linking things or something but, when you install a program using a RedHat
style .rpm, it seems to put everything on the /usr partition. Presumably if
you subsequently move any of this stuff about to other partitions it will
cock things up so, if you want to run a lot of different programs like I do
when I'm trying to sort out what does what, the /usr partition soon gets
full up.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrie Bremner" <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 15 November 2000 11:47
>  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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