One filesystem spanning multiple hard drives...

[jcoats at colltech.com (Jack Coats)]

"Kevin M. Gleason" wrote:
> 
> I have a couple older hard drives installed on an older 486 system that
> I want to use to run Red Hat 6.0 workstation installation (at work).

Old hardware is my joy and plague :)

> I've tried to use both disk druid and fdisk to play with partitions and
> am having one heck of a time. I would like RH6.0 to install creating
> multiple partitions to accommodate my hardware but am forced to
> designate my own partitions. Is there a way to have Linux look at my
> 500m and 275m hard drives as though it was one drive of approx 775m and
> allocate its own partitions?

Yes there is, you can basically conctinate(sp) the drives.  But
sorry,
I don't know how :(

> I've tried to allocate 17m to root and the rest to swap space (on the
> smaller drive) and use the entire [larger] hard drive for the rest but
> encounter the need for greater disk space for the installation that I've
> suggested.

My suggestion is to take a couple of small partitions (32M or so
on each
disk) for swap (and set the priority in the FSTAB of them both to
the 
same number, like =1), make a /tmp partition, and possibly
/var/messages
on the small drive, and put the rest of the large drive as /
(root).
That should work for you, or at least it would for me :)

> Any suggestions?

There are other possibilities.  I wonder what the RH 6.1 install 
would do?  It seems to be quite nice.  I do suggest cutting down
what
RH tries to install using the CUSTOM install procedure, just
because
you don't have a 'lot' of disk space. 

> 
> Kevin M. Gleason
> 
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