--=-tC9WnQbqwfiPMTQP/LMo Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-/B5aahWLjs4DYUIArhmZ" --=-/B5aahWLjs4DYUIArhmZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Don't forget LVM! I've had great success by putting my home partition across 2 drives and perhaps later, a third. I don't know how it wuold be done in your case besides that the boot folder would have to be its own partition. However, LVM allows for easy expansion with the vgadd and lv add commands and then with a good file system (I use XFS), you just issue another command (don't remember what now) and the filesystem is expanded to the new size of this virtual partition. And, this is all kernel level and transition safe. I went from Mandrake to Gentoo and it stayed fully and completely intact. --=20 Bryce C CoBryce Communications --=-/B5aahWLjs4DYUIArhmZ Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Forwarded message - Re: / spanning multiple disks Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mail.bryceconet.plug@localhost.cobryce.com Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cobryce.myvnc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C4DC912F for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:55:41 -0700 (MST) Envelope-to: plug@bryceco.net Delivery-date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:50:47 -0400 Received: from 66.103.137.65 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.7) for mail.bryceconet.plug@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:55:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from [68.14.243.59] (helo=pluglist.macrosift.com) by sh2.1-sh.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19kuWs-0005JR-OF for plug@bryceco.net; Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:50:46 -0400 Received: from lists.plug.phoenix.az.us (plug [127.0.0.1]) by pluglist.macrosift.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E1B1A72F0; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:04:04 -0700 (MST) Delivered-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.36.230]) by pluglist.macrosift.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5521A72EC for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:03:40 -0700 (MST) Received: from thomas ([24.153.176.34]) by ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with SMTP id h77NoGTV023725 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:50:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <002201c35d3e$a8fd3d70$6e01a8c0@thomas> From: "Thomas Cameron" To: References: <3F32BB33.8040007@asu.edu> <3F32C75D.3020409@asu.edu> <3F32DD20.1050707@asu.edu> Subject: Re: / spanning multiple disks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Errors-To: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us X-BeenThere: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Main PLUG discussion list. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:50:14 -0500 Status: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Rob Wultsch" To: Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 6:13 PM Subject: Re: / spanning multiple disks > Thanks. That is probaly exactly what I am looking for. > > SO I would install normaly on the first disk, not touching the second > disk. If I want a total of 256 swap then I would set it at 128, and then > follow the steps to setup striping. Right? You don't stripe swap - the kernel sort of does it automagically. If the kernel needs to page stuff to disk, it uses the least active swap slice(s), so it doesn't help and might hurt to try to stripe swap space. If I had two 1GB disks and I wanted to run the root filesystem over both disks I would partition like this: Slice Type Mount Size /dev/sda1 83 /boot 100MB (put the kernel and associated files in here) /dev/sda2 82 swap 128MB /dev/sda3 fd /dev/md0 772MB /dev/sdb1 82 swap 228MB /dev/sdb2 fd /dev/md0 772MB You'd configure /dev/md0 as a RAID0 array. This would give you about 1.5GB of space to install your OS on. Just my opinion. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --=-/B5aahWLjs4DYUIArhmZ-- --=-tC9WnQbqwfiPMTQP/LMo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/MuhY/wbq/C6yyPcRAs3iAKCmSRWy2J0VvJ+K2VsNg7iISMoRygCfRqmy /mO3UhkN7Wesj+9poZiFlT4= =5oFa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tC9WnQbqwfiPMTQP/LMo--