With so big disks today (or with LVM, LSM on Tru64) i'm looking for the opposite.You are requesting about Logical Volume Manager ( LVM )
Exist in Linux, runs very well ( My laptop runs with LVM ) :D
Note: "Windows 2000 can do something similar, can Linux do this?"
I prefer to say: "HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 can do something similar when I was a child, can Linux do this?" ;)
On Tru64 with advfs file system you can have partition and inside
multiple file sets. Each file set is (looks like) a separate file system. Backups can be done with the vdump and vrestore.
More from:
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_HTML/ARH96DTE/TITLE.HTM
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1.3.1 Filesets, Domains, and Volumes
A fileset follows the logical structure of a traditional UNIX file system. It is a hierarchy of directory names and file names, and it is what you mount on your system. AdvFS goes beyond the traditional file system by allowing you to create multiple filesets that share a common pool of storage called a domain. See Section 1.4.1 for information about configuring an AdvFS file system and Section 2.4 for information about fileset operation.
A domain represents the physical storage layer. It is managed separately from the directory structure. You can add or remove volumes without affecting the directory structure. See Section 2.3 for information about domain management.
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Does anyone else can do this? :-)
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