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Quote:> Hi everybody,
> I have two hard drives, their capacities are 4.3 Giga byte and 3.2 Giga
> byte. And I would like to merge these two hard drives into one hard
> drive in order to mount them to directory "/usr" in Linux . But I don 't
> know how to do that. please tell me what softwares I can use for that,
> and where I can download them as well as how to set up it. If you have
> spare time, please tell me as much details as posible.
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
The easiest way to do this is to not merge them at all. Just mount one
partition as root (/), and one or more partitions as subdirectories under
that. For instance, you might have:
3.2GB Drive:
200MB /
3000MB /usr
4.3GB Drive:
1000MB /opt
2000MB /usr/local
100MB swap
1300MB /home
If you really must create a single contiguous logical partition, you need
to use the multiple devices support in the kernel (in the block devices
area). This support is also known as RAID. There's a HOWTO document about
it, so check that.
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