From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 16:25:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1D337B768 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:25:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@pool0158.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net) Received: from pool0158.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool0158.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.192.158]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA16756; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:25:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0158.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00515; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:22:15 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Space Usage Message-ID: <20000716162214.B225@pool0158.cvx21-bradley.dialup.e> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:34:54PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:34:54PM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > Ok this question is meant mostly clarify in my mind how this > works. Say I have an 8 gig and a 13 gig drive. I mount /usr on the 8 gig, > along with /, /var, /tmp, etc. I then mount /home on the 13 gig drive. How > are files handled if I write into /home? Is based upon which drive has the > most free room? Or does it try to fill up the 8 gig drive first? Assuming > these are IDE drives, does it matter which controller and position they're > in (slave/mater.) Thanks in advance! Uhh, hmmm? If you have a filesystem mounted at /home and you write files to that filesystem... The files get written to that filesystem, to the disk that it is on. Am I missing something? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message