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two disks in the same mounting point
Name: sn Date: December 20, 2001 at 07:11:45 Pacific
Comment:
my root ( / ) partition is full and i need more space; i can't delete enything;]
how could i mount two disks in the same mounting point?
Name: oliver Date: December 20, 2001 at 11:53:16 Pacific
Reply:
do you have any other partitions or is everything ( /opt /usr /export etc ) part of root?
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark M Date: December 20, 2001 at 13:07:16 Pacific
Reply:
Two main ways of doing this.....
1) Back up root, install a new HDD, restore to the new disk and change the vfstab entry for /
2) install a new disk and use solstice disksuite to make root into a concatenated stripe.
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Response Number 3
Name: Johan Date: December 27, 2001 at 02:17:20 Pacific
Reply:
Apperantly you know nothing about the filesystem design in Unix. Read some about it at the net and you will understand that you simple can do what you ask for but in a total different way then you thought...
Good luck
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Response Number 4
Name: Dummy Date: January 6, 2002 at 18:59:54 Pacific
Reply:
He ask for help and solution, not your comments toward him.
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