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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:29:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Merging disks
Message-ID:  <20020731142927.R69814-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020731171813.00982e40@pop.netzero.net>

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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
>
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