Re: Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-11-09 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 16:44:56 -0400 (EST), Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Me, for a start! I found it very useful to be able to combine together >> a few scraps of spare space on a number of mounted disks to create a >> scratch partition of useful size. > Why not use striping inst

Re: Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-11-06 Thread Hardware Stuff
From: Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> If that's the case, then who's actually using linear mode? > > Me, for a start! I found it very useful to be able to combine together > a few scraps of spare space on a number of mounted disks to create a > scratch partition of useful

Re: Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-11-06 Thread Robert Minichino
> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 16:44:56 -0400 (EST) > From: Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Linear/ext2-volume question > > >> If that's the case, then who's actually using linear mode? > > > > Me, for a start! I found it very usefu

Re: Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-11-06 Thread Dave Wreski
>> If that's the case, then who's actually using linear mode? > > Me, for a start! I found it very useful to be able to combine together > a few scraps of spare space on a number of mounted disks to create a > scratch partition of useful size. Why not use striping instead? Isn't the distincti

Re: Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-10-19 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:05:11 +0100, "Johan Gronvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm new to this list so please bare with me if I ask stupid questions. > I'm looking for a kind of linear solution. I have however got the > impression that you can only 'concatenate' 2 disks or partitions to >

Re: Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-10-18 Thread Luca Berra
you can concatenate any number of disks with linear, the problem lies in extending the filesystem on them. options are: formatting buying some product from PowerQuest and obtaining the resize2fs tool if i remember correctly ext2-volume was a patch Miguel de Icaza wrote a long ago and it was not d

Linear/ext2-volume question

1998-10-18 Thread Johan Grönvall
Hi, I'm new to this list so please bare with me if I ask stupid questions. I'm looking for a kind of linear solution. I have however got the impression that you can only 'concatenate' 2 disks or partitions to make a single md device. Correct? And both disks need to be reformatted. Right? If th