The additional drives don't have to be mounted to common mountpoints - you can mount /var/log as it's own partition (if /var/log was big). If your home directories are the problem, then you could divide your users up into /home1 and /home2 and have each one be a different partition. Just make sure you fix the user's entries in the passwd file. If this is just a workstation for you (i.e., not really multi-user), you can just mount one of the big spare partitions anywhere and use it to dump stuff. My workstation here has a 14Gb partition called /space that I use to dump "stuff". My home directory is NFS mounted from the staff file server, and is meticulously organized. /space is for "garbage" - patches, packages, stuff I download and play with, and of course, /space/mp3 On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Austad, Jay wrote: > You can't go about it the way you want to. You cannot just mount as many > partitions to the same mount point as you like and gain extra space. You > need to use something like LVM to either stripe or concatenate the drives > together first. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: B_o_B [mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:49 AM > > To: Ben Lutgens > > Subject: Re[2]: [TCLUG] Drive Drama > > > > > > Wednesday, July 2, 2003 @ 6:38:29 AM Central Standard Time > > > > BL> Why you'd want two /var and /home partitions is a bit of > > a mystery. > > > > I guess I misunderstood the procedure. I wanted to mount the /var & > > /home partitions on a few drives to get as much free space as > > possible. > > > > I will try to figure out what drive is truly being used, and remove > > the other ref's to /home & /var from the fstab file. No problem. > > > > If I mount the other partitions as /var2 /home2, etc. will I be able > > to use these partitions as free space for /var & /home? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars > > West Longitude 90' 15' 43" > > http://b-o-b.homelinux.com > > mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list