Multiple Mount Points

LinuxGeek · 07-27-2002, 10:14 AM

Does any file system under Linux support something like multiple mount points? What I mean by this is, for example, if you are using /dev/hda2 for /usr and run out of space, is there any way to make it so /usr starts using a different partition such as /dev/hda3? So the end of /dev/hda3 tells the filesystem that it continues on /dev/hda3 so it is seen only as a single partition? Thanks for your time...

acid_kewpie · 07-27-2002, 10:27 AM

persumably you want to read about Logical Volume Management, LVM, at tldp.org

Thymox · 07-28-2002, 06:46 PM

Would this not also possibly come under the umbrella of striping RAID (hardware or software)?

I was under the impression that LVM was more a question of dynamically changing the parameters for 'partitions' (if you can call them that), such as their start- and end-blocks, although spanning a mount-point onto another partition/disc at runtime was also a possibility, but not of primary importance?