From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 21:15:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E291D16A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:15:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8315543D48 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:15:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799DACCF6B9 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:15:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:15:17 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: BKKMQQ98GoN7q/OBXltbCCGYTDtKYdxhra1pT2E033yZ 1128114914 Received: from merkur (host-66-202-74-42.choiceone.net [66.202.74.42]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF80C570364 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:15:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by merkur (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 willmaier@ml1.net; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:15:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:15:19 -0500 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050930211519.GN7691@localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050930205520.44120.qmail@web80910.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050930205520.44120.qmail@web80910.mail.scd.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:15:20 -0000 On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:55:20PM -0700, Allen D. Tate wrote: > I have a machine that I'm getting ready to install FreeBSD 5.4 on and I > have three 40 GB hard drives and I want the two drives that do not have > the core system installed on them symbolically linked to the /home > directory. I am pretty new to FreeBSD (other than installing it a few > times and breaking it to learn) and I've never done a symbolic link > before. Can someone either give a quick tutorial or point me to a > hotwo? Thanks in advance. man 1 ls In your case, I'd recommend going through the install as normal, except designate one of the two drives as your /home. I'm not sure what you mean by linking *both* of the drives (it doesn't work that way); just setting one of the other big drives as the /home mountpoint should do the trick. -- o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o | jabber:..wcmaier@jabber.ccc.de | email:..........wcmaier@ml1.net | | \.........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | \..........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | *------------------[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]------------------*