Two partitions one mount point?
 

Like the title says, I'm wondering if this is possible. I have several hard drives in my box and I want to mount 2 of them as /home. I am doing a reinstall of Slackware 12.2 btw

No. (You can do the reverse, but not that.)

You can create them as a "stripe" software RAID...but the problem with that is that you lose one hard disk...ALL your data is gone...

You can "mirror" the data but you only get 50% of capacity (i.e. if you have 2 100G drives...you only get 100G in a "mirror" NOT 200)

The "ideal" way is to RAID5 them...but this requires 3 disks...

A software RAID is good...but a Hardware RAID would be preferable.

-C

Thanks for the quick reply!

@custangro: I'm not trying to set it up as raid, I just want to increase the capacity of /home. Thanks anyways.

You could look into LVMs then. Not sure about under slack though.

Then I think billymayday is right. LVM will probably be the way to go.

You can create an LVM logical volume with the 2 disks...but remember LVM dosen't provide fault tolerance (i.e. if you loose 1 disk...you run the risk of losing all your data!!!).

Just a friendly warning :)

@billymayday: Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[SOLVED] - Check out http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/inde...tions_with_LVM for setting up LVM to increase your /home capacity.

I have /home on one partition and then /home/ajlewis2/Documents on another and then /home/ajlewis2/media on another. That increases the size of /home quite a bit.

thanks for the suggestion ajlewis, but I have already formatted and I've got a nice big /home using LVM. This way I don't have to worry if I'm downloading some big file which partition to save it to, I can save all my torrents to /home/ryan/downloads. Thanks again