I would like to know if it is possible to spread an install out over multiple disks. I have a system that I want to run as a LAMP system and I would like to split up the mount points over the 3 disks I have , 1 x 40 gig and 2 x 80 gig. is this possible or will i need to set up on one disk and then move the mount points over to the new disks?
Thanks in advance

From practically any distribution, you should be able to specify mount points before the base system gets installed.

It all boils down to which mount points you want to segregate from the primary disk. For server environments, usually the /var (and/or /srv) directories are put on separate drives (I use the term "usually" quite liberally), that way should the "controller" (primary disk where the OS runs from) die in some fashion, the data is still - ideally - untouched; the repair process would be something as simple as replacing the controller disk.

Another suggestion I will make, is that you store all of the configuration files (.conf) that you need (Apache, MySQL, PHP and maybe even Samba) on the data drives - and create symbolic links to them in their respective directories under /etc. Meaning, if you do an "ls -l" in /etc/apache2, you might see something like

So I should be able to run fdisk or whatever gentoo uses to partition the disks and setup from the start in theory?
Thanks, will give it a go over the weekend. I like the idea of the config files being sym linked, I think I will use that set up.

Keep in mind, fdisk (along with cfdisk, [g|q]parted) partition your drive - they give you /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, etc. Where you set which directories go onto which partition is governed by your /etc/fstab file.

there's a stuff called lvm.




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