Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:14:08 +0100 From: "Lord Alabattai" <alabattai@gmail.com> To: "Karl Fischer" <kmf@fischer.org.za> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_K=C3=B6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: Multiple Directories for Jails Message-ID: <f2a3b62e0701300314p35796c76v76aefc1218589718@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AB519A37-3A20-401D-B437-C1260686EE5D@fischer.org.za> References: <f7fabe790701290148m67402d9cpbe2064d340380db6@mail.gmail.com> <45BE0D1A.5090405@cs.tu-berlin.de> <AB519A37-3A20-401D-B437-C1260686EE5D@fischer.org.za>
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On 1/29/07, Karl Fischer <kmf@fischer.org.za> wrote: > > On 29 Jan 2007, at 5:04 PM, Björn König wrote: > > > Karl Fischer schrieb: > >> Hi > >> I'm a n00b to freebsd and jails is there away that I can specify > >> multiple Directories in the jails.conf ? > >> JAIL_HOME="/data1; /data2" etc. > > > > What are you trying to do or what do you expect? > > > > A file system hierarchy can only have one root directory. You > > probably want to play with unionfs. You can read about its concept > > here: http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/ > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS > > > > Regards Björn > > Hi > Basically the Drive that the Jails are hosted on is running out of > space. > By adding another mounted Partition I will have more space. > > If I add a new Drive to the Machine ... > mount it under /data2 can I just stop the jails and copy them across > modify the jails.conf and start it up ? > I guess the best procedure should be to back them up and restore them > there ? If both partitions are of equal or similiar size, software RAID might be a good choice. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html Best regards, Alabattai -- "Better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven." - John Milton, Paradise Lost
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