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pwhitdog
08-16-2003, 04:18 PM
Hi everyone,
I have 2 120 gig hard drives that I want to use for a mythtv project of mine. Now here's the question, how do I set up the hard drives so I can have one HUGE partition of say 200 gig so this way I can store all the tv shows in one place.
Thanks for the help,
Paul
kshim5
08-16-2003, 04:43 PM
You might want to try a raid card.
check this out
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=280534&Sku=C250-1072&CatId=508
pwhitdog
08-16-2003, 04:50 PM
Once I get the raid card what would I do, how would I be able to do it. I don't want them to mirror or copy each other just make one giant partition, so how would I do that? Thanks for the help,
Paul
ricstr
08-16-2003, 04:56 PM
With the RAID card the mode you want to use is called JBOD (Just a bunch of disks), Linux has support for software RAID which you should look at before buying the card, this should allow you to use your drives in a JBOD or similar configuration.
kshim5
08-16-2003, 08:50 PM
If you are using RedHat read this first
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-raid-intro.html
then this.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-software-raid.html
mdwatts
08-17-2003, 10:14 AM
Look into using LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
If LVM is installed by your distro, have a look at the lvm manpage which will help explain how it works.
man lvm