Fedora Users — Re: 3 hard drives as 1

Ragnar Wiencke wrote:

Hi there guys.

I am installing FC2 with 3x10GB hard drives. I got about 8.5GB of free space
on each drive. How can I mount the 3 partitions so that I see one mounting
point with about 25GB space?

Tia,
Ragnar W.

Well, you need to first create a 100mb /boot partition on one of the drives, preferably the master drive that the bootloader will be installed on. There are two options:

For the rest of the drives create an LVM partition on each one, then create a Logical Volume group, so you have 3 8.5gb LVM volumes in one group. Make the LVM group your "/" partition, then you will have ~25gb of space.

You could do something similar by creating Software RAID partitions instead of LVM, and setup a RAID 0 (striped across all 3 drives) array to mount /.

In either case, make sure you make a swap partition on one of the drives. I am currently using a 75gb LVM on /dev/hda and a 35gb LVM on /dev/hdb, which gives mes a "/" filesystem of 110gb. Works very well and I have had no problems yet.