From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 14:30: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA76837B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:30:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDA443E4A for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6VLU0dq071712; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g6VLTxtb071709; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:29:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:29:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merging disks In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020731171813.00982e40@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: <20020731142927.R69814-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's possible. Read about vinum or ccd in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Lord Raiden wrote: > Not being a master of working with disks on the Freebsd operating system, > I have a question. When doing a fresh install, how do I spread a slice > across three HD's? > > Say for example the system has 4 HD's, each 20 gigs in size, and HD1 has > all the normal slices, the swap file, var, tmp, and the root slice ("/") > and then in turn HD's 2, 3, and 4 would then all have one huge slice titled > "/usr" on them as a spanned slice. > > Is this possible or am I totally off? Basically what I need to do is take > one folder and span it across 3 HD's if possible. Any suggestions how to > do this would be welcome. Thanks. > > -- The Raiden Knows > > "Remember amateurs built the ark -- professionals built the Titanic." - > Unknown > > "Just when you think you have life figured out and all is going well, watch > your step, for you are about to fall." - Ancient Proverb > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message