How to install and run appllications from a striped volume
 

480gb raid-level=0 /dev/md127 I was wondering how to migrate my current applications there. Also how to install and run future applications from it. Not really a raid question but rather how I can install to and run from a drive that is not root mount point.

mount it as a raid volume. You have some level of raid set up, I presume. Then what happens next depends on the raid number you choose.

Kind of hard to say how to move an application. Some are pretty easy. Some may require a lot of hand work making links or edits.

Without knowing where the files are at we can't guess.

For the most part one can clone off or link a partition to almost anywhere. Some forms of lvm and other filesystem may make this easier.

If not migrate current, what about installing future apps?
 

Is there a way to "apt-get install /dev/md127/programfiles" or something of that nature? Is my question going to fall under making my raid drive into an application server for my root drive? With :<windows:< I used to just migrate my "Program Files" from my C: drive to my Sriped Volume and then whenever I installed new apps I would direct the install to the Program Files folder on the Striped Volume. The application load and access time was like night and day difference in speed. I was hoping for a similiar solution.

For most people a raid array is not known to the applications. It should be transparent to any use or install. An installer isn't aware of the raid. Your OS may and your motherboard/raid board may know about the raid. For you I'd think the array is simply a mount point like any other.

Depending on your exact system install you may be able to clone off data to the raid array and then bring it online as the original mount points. Depending on OS and distro things like /etc /home /usr might be common ones to put on the raid. Consider either a raid swap or even swap on the raid array. (slightly different ideas).

Linux (and also windows) doesn't always put all the files in one neat place. If you want you might put a few common mount points on the raid array. Look at the apps you have for clues to where the majority of files go. Peek into installer for where it puts data.

The only issue may be in boot or OS to the location. A hard drive /home and a raid drive /home is the same.

The apt-get install command seems to target /root
 

I know that a windows OS will not install on a Dynamic Drive, and even if Linux is capable of doing so I don't think I would want to try and run the OS from a striped set. I will do more research on the apt-get install parameters i.e where the files go and how it determines that. I have only been using Linux since June because I finally couldn't take the intrusive limitations of that other OS anymore. I am very glad I have made the switch and am very impressed with Linux. It's like that "V8 juice" commercial POW!! "I coulda had a V8!" except it's POW!! "I coulda had a virus free secure system!!"

Thanks Jefro

P.S. Google Astoria, Oregon and their Mayor who hasn't spent a day in jail even after a 3rd DUI conviction

I think they fixed the dynamic install but that is nothing to do with your issue or question.

Just because you use linux doesn't mean your data is safe. You still need to learn and use as many best practices as you can. There is no "safe" OS that I know of.