On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:04, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
At 13:55 1/30/2004, you wrote:
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>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...
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