Re: SPan Two Drives

On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, vjp2.at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

When you set up a partition to install Linux, how might you span
it across two drives? My Linux requires 4MB which is roughly
the size of my HD but not exactly as much. I was thinking of putting the
partitions on two drives, but I don't quite understand what the second larger
partiton is about.

Can this be done?

You're garbling already. 5meg drives go back at least 30 years, maybe a tad older, if you were lucky to be able to afford a hard drive. Most computers still topped out at 64K, though by 1982 that was starting to change.

Once you figure out how much space you have and how much space you need, the solution is simple. If you really don't have enough drive space, then you buy another one, which is big enough. If you're cheap, then you pull a second hard drive out of some scrap computer, which is still likely to be of decent size. And if that's still not good enough, then you partition enough space on drive A to be useful, and then put some of the rest on the second drive, mounting that second drive at an appropraite point on the first drive.

Michael


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