On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:04, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 13:55 1/30/2004, you wrote: > ><snip> > >On a related issue, is it possible to combine several drives/partitions > >into one logical Linux file system? > > > >In other words, if I have 3 hard drives, I might want to use one partition > >on hda for /boot, another partition on hdb for /swap, and use all > >remaining space on all other drives/partitions as the root fs. > >Windows 2000 can do something similar, can Linux do this? > > What you want is LVM (Logical Volume Manager). Version 2 is just out, I > think. In addition to this, possibly you might find some use of RAID > useful. combining disks without RAID > 0 is like playing with fire. The warranty for hard disks going down from 3 years to 1 year has a reason... -- http://LinuxWiki.org/RonnyBuchmann
