hard drive question [was: new ]

[Michael Phillips]

It sounds like you need RAID setup.  I do not know too much about this, but I
think some of the other people might know more.

Michael
--- ebenoit at hopevale.com wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
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