Jonathan,
>> I really don't want to repartition--again! But yes, your idea is
>>intresting.
>>
> As a point of note that is what LVM is for, the 20th century called and
> wants partitions back.
Point taken! But really, I had already enough issues with this server, I just
wanted to keep it a
On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 07:05 -0700, Mauricio Alvarez wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I really don't want to repartition--again! But yes, your idea is intresting.
>
As a point of note that is what LVM is for, the 20th century called and
wants partitions back.
Getting back on topic why not consider using
On 4/29/2013 09:05, Mauricio Alvarez wrote:
Michael,
I really don't want to repartition--again! But yes, your idea is intresting.
You don't need to repartition; you could mount tmpfs on /mnt and use
something like tmpfiles.d or a custom script to create the mountpoints
therein at boot. Th
On Monday, April 29, 2013 10:05:29 AM Mauricio Alvarez wrote:
> Michael,
>
>I really don't want to repartition--again! But yes, your idea is
> intresting.
Loop-mount a small file (1.44M) on the dir; that should be as effective as a
small partition.
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Instead of repartitioning you could create a filesystem inside of a file...
http://freecode.com/articles/virtual-filesystem-building-a-linux-filesystem-from-an-ordinary-file
.
Just a thought,
Ricky
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Mauricio Alvarez <
maurialvarez...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Mic
Michael,
I really don't want to repartition--again! But yes, your idea is intresting.
If there really isn't any other option (really? no-one has ever had this
problem in the past?), I was thinking of something like this:
* Inside each disk, at the root level, create a single directory, call
Wouldn't it be very simple to just create a VERY small partition (e.g.
10MB) on the main drive (the one that your system disk is on), and mount it
on e.g. /mnt.
Then, even if one of your disks can't mount for some reason, only this very
small partition will fill up => no problem for the rest of the
Hello,
I wonder if it is possible to dynamically enable/disable samba 3 shares.
Here is my problem.
On a remote server I have 4 removable hard drives, large capacity. I am not
using any RAID/JBOD, so each drive is mounted individually (like /mnt/DISK1,
/mnt/DISK2 etc) and each drive is in
