From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 22:19:56 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 45C3216A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:19:56 +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 7F6C343D58 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:19:55 +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 C76E4CD1448 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:19:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:19:53 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 6t7U5+X5eBLQ/F6eMpnRNBo1tx7rKY2+XmIiFYHg1VNx 1128118791 Received: from merkur (host-66-202-74-42.choiceone.net [66.202.74.42]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AE95703A7 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:19:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: by merkur (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 willmaier@ml1.net; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:19:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:19:56 -0500 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050930221956.GO7691@localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050930205520.44120.qmail@web80910.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <20050930211519.GN7691@localdomain> <433DABEC.7C0565DE@e-raist.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433DABEC.7C0565DE@e-raist.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 22:19:56 -0000 On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:19:40PM -0700, Raistlin Majere wrote: > If you were trying to get the aggregate of the two disks and use them as > /home you could use a RAID card of some kind to convince the OS to see > those two disks as one big disk (using RAID1) and then go through the > standard install, and designate the RAID as the /home partition,... (Please don't CC me; I read the list : ) ) RAID would be a doable solution, but it's likely overkill for the user. Another option would be vinum[0] (FreeBSD's logical volume manager). [0]A relevant article: http://www.freebsddiary.org/vinum.php > but that has other disadvantages (cost of the RAID card, setup of > the RAID, risk that if one disk dies, you lose all of /home., etc) RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is designed to prevent the 'one disk goes, so goes /home' problem. RAID1 ('mirroring') should do just fine mitigating this issue. -- 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 ]------------------*