Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, mclark@datsrvr.datsit.com produced:

Otis Lamar wrote:

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How do I install everything (all packages) onto three hard disks using one mount point ( / ). I have not been able to figure this out. Thanks,

let me see: If you want to have *one* extremely big partition for everything (spanning all 3 HD's) then you'd need a raid controller (hardware). And I'd tell you this would be a very bad idea: if a log-file grows like mad it can lock up all the space you have, instead of only filling up /var (which is bad enough) and fscking takes a long time with such large partitions ... and fragmentation (though usually not a problem) might hit you, because you have short and long-life files on the same partition. In other words ... if you don't have a very compelling reason, don't. Use separate / /usr /home /tmp /var /var/spool/news /usr/src ... -Partitions. Or at least / /usr /home and /tmp ... Anyway you'll need 2 partitions at least ... you'll want swap partitions (I'd say 1 per HD, so the head movement is reduced). But: Linux --- like any Unix --- has no c: d: e:, maybe this is your misunderstanding ... it's like a tree: / /usr /home /var /tmp /user1 /user2/ /var/spool /var/spool/news and noone needs to know if /usr is on the same partition, or the same HD, or even on the same computer (if you use nfs or something like it). The kernel knows, and handles it completely transparently. So installing in such a system will work ... and if / is on HD1, /usr is on HD2 and /usr/src is on HD3, all files in /... that are not /usr/... go to HD1, all /usr/... but not /usr/src/... go to HD2 etc. Actually that means that you can move (e.g. with tar) a part of your files (all in or below a directory, e.g. /usr/src) on a different partition/disk/computer and just mount them to the old name (/usr/src) and nothing will break, because the path (e.g. /usr/src/linux/README) did not change --- you just have suddenly much more space in /usr and in /usr/src ...

Look in the multi-disk how-to. It appears that you need to add partitions together using 'mdadd' then activate the partitions using 'mdrun'. I know that is oversimplified so you'll need to read.

Won't work (here), because you must activate the partitions by mdrun, which is on / --- thus / can't be multi-disked. Same with software-raid ... you need to start it, before you can use it, so it both will work for all partitions but /. -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e