Re: [LI] partitions!!!!

["Chatterjee_Biswapesh" <"biswapesh_chatterjee"@tcscal.co.in>]

I think you cannot span one partition over multiple physical drives in Linux,
but I'm not sure.

Why do you need one 1.5 GB partition anyway ? Why not two partitions of 1 GB
each ?

Biswa.





Sandeep Singh Cheema <cheemas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on 12/21/99 03:14:32 PM

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Subject:  [LI] partitions!!!!




hi all
i have 3 scsi hdd- 1 gb each, and want to install linux- i want to
dedicate ONE partition of ATLEAST 1500mb root. please tell me ho to
go about doing that- i m stuck at the installation stage itself!! i tried
using diskdriud, it shows the 3 drives (sda, sdb, adc) but is NOT able to
span the partition over different drives (gives error as to insufficient
space). same error is given by fdisk. kindly help, as i NEED to install
RHL 6.0 TODAY!!!!



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