RE: Combining disks in one virtual partition.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simmons-Davis [mailto:simmonsdavis@frontier.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:48 AM
> To: Debian/Gnu Linux
> Subject: Combining disks in one virtual partition.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> My question for you all is whether or not you can join the
> partitions of
> several small hard disks together to form one
> large-contiuous-virtual root
> partition. I have quite a few small hard disks but none that
> are really big
> enough to be of much service to me.
This is what LVM is for (among other things). If you can run
a 2.4 kernel you might be able to do it. I don't know about
having root on a logical volume under linux. We did it with
hpux years ago. It will depend on boot support. Get the
kernel source and read the docs...
jim
>
> Thank you,
> Ry
>
>
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