| Noozer 2007-11-05, 7:12 pm |
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"AJackson" <anders.jackson@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> You can't. Unless, you use soft links like Angel did.
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> Easy way, you don't. Leave space on partition where you want it to
> be, and manually create partition and file system after installation
> is done. Then you add a line into /etc/fstab.
I figured this much, but I've been wrong before.
> If you are going to change and experiment with partition sizes, please
> have a look at LVM. It makes life so much easier when you want to do
> stuff like that. You can change size on partitions without needing to
> reboot the computer. You can easy create and remove partition while
> running. You can easy make three disks look like one large partition,
> and later divide it into many partitions.
LVM looks like a much better solution, but it sounds like I'm increasing my
risk if I use it. If I put 3 drives into a single LV and disk 2 fails, what
happens to the data on disk 1 and 3?
I seek lots of "how to's" for LVM, but not a lot of "what if" details.
My current setup is:
hda - 120g PATA in a removeable try - hda1 mounted to /mnt/backup, 23% used
sda - 500g SATA - sda1 mounted to /mnt/audio, 62% used
sdb - 380g SATA - sdb1 as 2gig swap, remainder as /mnt/data (downloads,
torrents, smb shares, etc.) 7% used
sdc - 300g SATA - sdc1 as 1gig /boot, sdc2 remainder as / (home, var, tmp,
etc...) 4% used
sdd - 500g SATA - sdd1 mounted to /mnt/video, 46% used
I really should combine the two 500g and 380g drives into a single LV... It
wouldn't affect backups at all and would make the system a lot more usable.
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