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[Darin Perusich]

you'll want to use the LVM (logical volume management) or md ( software 
raid) to span the 2 drives. LVM is far more flexable then md but it's 
also more complex. as for you drives sda is scsi drive 0 and sdb is scsi 
drive 1.

keep in mind that you'll have no redundancy if you span a filesystem 
across 2 drives. if one of your drives takes a dive you'll loose 
everything on that filesystem. you might be better off making 2 
filesystem and splitting you users across the 2, /home1 and /home2 or 
something like that.

ebenoit at hopevale.com wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd like to introduce myself as a new user to this list.
> 
> I have been using various flavours of unix/linux/ppc linux since 97 so I am
> fairly a new user, maybe, in comparison to some of you.
> 
> :) ok so now I jump to my question.
> 
> 
> I have a G4 powermac that I have semi-succesfully installed Mandrake 9.1 linux.
> This soon to be file server has two scsi hard drives.
> I would like to have my /home partition located on both scsi hard drives so that
> /home can have the greatest amount of space allocated to it.  
> 
> When I try to do this, the installation/partitioning works fine, but after the
> installation and succesful reboot the /home directory is only as big as the
> space allocated for the first scsi drive 'ID 0' excluding the other allocated
> space from the second scsi drive 'ID 1'.
> 
> Does any one know what I am doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Also, the /dev partition is recognizing that there is another scsi besides sda
> which is sdb... my second question would be could I grow the /home directory to
> sdb after installation, if so, how? <---I have tried this as well.
> 
> Any comments suggestions would be most welcome.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com