Re: [Sheflug] Spanning hard disks

[Marcus Hanwell <linux [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 08:50, Chris Johnson wrote:
> I've got a collection of smaller hard disks I want to install in a machine
> as a "file server" for use at home.  Is there any way in Linux to get one
> "storage space" spanning the disks.  E.G. I have 4x 4GB disks and I'd like
> to create 1 'partition' that I can store up to 4GB of system files and one I
> can store up to 12GB of video files etc.
> 
You can accomplish this with LVM, or even RAID. I have used LVM and it
allows you to create partitions independently of the physical drives
being used and they can often span several drives. RAID in one of it's
configurations allows you to chain several drives together and it will
alternately store data on each drive. Can't remember the RAID number
though.

Google for LVM and RAID and there are loads of howtos out there.
www.google.co.uk/linux is great for finding them out...

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