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Well, I'm adding another harddrive or two into my slackware server and I came up with a question. I have 1 sata drive on a expansion (pci) controller, and three 320 GB WD ide drives that are for storage.
Now what I want to do is have the sata drive for the root filesystem and all, and I'd like the three ide drives to show as one big drive that I can mount (/home/files). Is this possible somehow? I'm not sure how to do it in Linux, but I need to be able to add drives as time progresses without reformatting/changing anything on the existing drives.
I don't think raid is an option as the only thing that supports it is my sata controller, and the storage drives are ide.
Might be another stupid question, but does slack come with LVM(2)? I can't remember anything of the such during the install...=S
Thanks again
Edit: One last thing, my PCI SATA controller uses a Silicon Image Sil3114 chip, does anyone know if any of the default slack kernels supports it until I can compile a new one? Or know of a place to look? Thanks.
I use Slack with an 2.6 kernel and LVM2 is on the CDs together with device-mapper, which you also need. It's not installed by default so you need to installpkg the 2 packages. I'd suggest you use LVM2 (i.e. kernel 2.6) instead of LVM (i.e. kernel 2.4).
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