From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 20: 6:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peacock.tci.com (coral.tci.com [198.178.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE1E14F93 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:06:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@tci.com) Received: from guido.tci.com (guido.tci.com [165.137.145.151]) by peacock.tci.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA26883; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:06:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from tci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by guido.tci.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA05319; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:06:20 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36E5EFBC.93294EE8@tci.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:06:20 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis Organization: Tele-Communications, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marius M.Rex" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A partition over multiple hard disks? References: <19990310013643.2963.qmail@www0v.netaddress.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Marius M.Rex" wrote: > > In the realm of theory, it would seem possible to spread one Un*x partition > over multiple physical hard disks. Now, I know that if I wanted to, I could > spread the /usr partition over multiple hard disks if I separately mounted > /usr in one place, and say /usr/src somewhere else... /usr/local somewhere > else...et el. That would be easy enough to do, and a little editing at > /etc/fstab would get them mounted nicely. > But is there a way to seamlessly spread a large partition like /usr over > multiple disks without separately mounting subdirectories? It would be kind > of a pain to go through and plan how much space I needed for the > subdirectories, and parse out each a piece here and there. (As I could > miscalculate and regret it later.) Is there any way I could get my FreeBSD > box to just mount /usr over two or more hard disks, as if I had simply > allotted the total space to one mounting of /usr on one physical disk? SGI IRIX can do this, but I don't know of any such functionality in FreeBSD (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just means that I've never seen it). ct To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message