RE: tlug: Mounting my W95 partition

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

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> >by itself, and you can see free disk space with 'df'.  If you're not sure
> >what drive a certain subdir is on (ie, /var/lib/crap, in the example
> 
> 
> Can directories be split across physical drives, so that there was half of a
> /crap on one drive, and the other half of a /crap on another? :-)

I'm going to start calling you 'mister ambiguous question guy' from now
on, I think :)

The answer is 'yes and no'.

You can do:

/crap/foo/file1.txt
/crap/bar/file2.txt

and have /dev/hdc1 mounted on /crap/foo, /dev/hdd1 mounted on /crap/bar,
so you have two drives mounted somewhere UNDER /crap (any files put
directly in /crap however will go onto whatever drive is mounted as /)

You can't have:

/crap/file1.txt
/crap/file2.txt

and have the two files on separate drives (at least not that I know of).

Of course, you can also use Linux's 'md' multiple-device feature, which
will let you linearly append drives together or stripe them with RAID.
I've never done that, though.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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