Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:43:22 +0100 From: "Philippe Lang" <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> To: "Karl Fischer" <kmf@fischer.org.za>, =?iso-8859-1?B?Qmr2cm4gS/ZuaWc=?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Multiple Directories for Jails Message-ID: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F4218CD56@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> References: <f7fabe790701290148m67402d9cpbe2064d340380db6@mail.gmail.com><45BE0D1A.5090405@cs.tu-berlin.de> <AB519A37-3A20-401D-B437-C1260686EE5D@fischer.org.za>
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 ? > > Thanks for the help > Karl Hi, Jails don't absolutely need to have the same root. I'm not sure where you found your "JAIL_HOME" and "jails.conf" (a script?), but each jail needs a "rootdir", which can be a path to whatever you want. You can configure this "rootdir" in /etc/rc.conf. Have a look there. Depending on how much space your actual jails are using, you may consider moving all your jails onto a new drive, instead of moving part of them. It is maybe easier to manage your system this way, although not necessary at all. Hope this will help you, Philippe
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