Multiple Filesystems?

adelie · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 20

I have to (2) ide hd's. Both are about 4gigs a piece. I would like set /tmp, /usr, /var, and /home with each's own partition and between the two physical drives.

Is this supported under Gentoo's distro?

thx.

adelie

handsomepete · Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 2:42 pm Post subject:

Assuming that this isn't in a raid setup...

The quick and dirty (but probably cheating) way could be to just install onto one partition (or /boot and /), and then edit your fstab to support the other directories at the new locations on the various drives. Then move /tmp, /usr, /var, and /home to their partitions on whatever portions of the drives (hda/hdb/etc.). As long as /boot stays in the same place you shouldn't have to change anything in grub.

If it is in a raid setup, then your raid controller handles the bulk of the hard part, you just make the partitions you want (and make sure and compile in the correct support in the kernel).

Hope that's close to an answer to what you were asking.