Need to split /home

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:51:48PM -0500, Michael Hipp took 19 lines to write:
> I have one production server where /home has outgrown its disk. It is 
> using all of hdc as a single ext3 partition.
> 
> Is there some clever way to split a directory like /home across 2 disks 
> (partitions)?
> 
> In lieu of a better plan I may end up just using symlinks for the 
> directories inside /home that I move to the second disk. But this seems 
> like a crude way to do it and doomed to be somewhat of a maintenance 
> problem.

What you really want is volume management, but I don't know if ext3 
can be used with volume management software. The idea is to take 
multiple disks or partitions and coalesce them into a single "volume"
that looks to user space (and, to some degree, kernel space) as if 
was a single honkin' disk.

Kurt
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