From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 01:40:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA21762 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA21743 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA26684; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 10:38:04 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 10:38:04 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Jeremy Sigmon cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > > I have 3 hds (IDE unfortunately) and 1 cdrom Beware! I remember seeing on this list some discussion of problems with BootEasy when using 3 IDE drives. You may want to search through the archives, or else make sure your root partition is on the first drive. > > I would like to create /usr and have it span three of those drives. You could use ccd, but that's kinda complicated. If all you need is to use that sppace effectively, and you can afford a static partitioning of it, you may want to divide /usr into separate partitions. For example, you could mount /usr on one disk, /usr/local on another and /usr/src on yet another disk. However, be careful with what you do, because the space each such directory will take up is very much installation-dependent. > > is this possible? (2.1.5) You can always use ccd that lets you "stripe" disks (preferably of the same type). If you want that, take a look at ccd(4) and ccdconfig(8). > > thanks > > ====================================================================== > Jeremy Sigmon B.S. ChE | > Web Developer of the Robert C. Byrd Health | Use > Sciences Center of West Virginia University | FreeBSD > WWW.HSC.WVU.EDU | Now > Graduate Student in Computer Science | > Office : 293-1060 | > > Nadav