Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mounting multiple drives at root
Message-ID: <1990Nov09.122927.6055@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Nov 90 12:29:27 GMT
References: <24961@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <24961@adm.BRL.MIL> WEBBG@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu ( Geoff Webb) writes:
>
>Hello all,
>
>I have just installed System V 3.2.2 on my machine (yea! no more DOS!!).
>Right now my root file system is sitting on my 65meg drive. I am going
>to add another 40meg drive very soon and would like to know if I can set it
>up to mount at root. I would rather have one file system of 105meg
>then two smaller ones.

In the standard System V R3.2.2 you cannot mount two devices so that
they appear as a single file system.  You can mount the second device
onto a directory on the first filesystem, but you can't make it all 
into one file system.


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