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[ebenoit at hopevale.com]

Thank you so much ...going with LVM, and having a good back-up system.  This
will work out great.

thanks again.


Quoting Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>:

> 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
> 
> 




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