Mounting several partitions to one directory.

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#1

Hey,

I have 3 hard disks, each with a 1TB EXT3 partition. I was wondering if there is a way to mount them to the same directory. I’m using opensuse 11.1

Thanks.

#2

No.

If you had wanted to combine the storage you should have used LVM.

#3

No way to do that.
You may use tools like RAID, LVM etc. to make them look like one logical partition and then, you can.

#4

Ok thanks for the quick response.
Guess I’ll start looking for a nice raid controller. (Dont much feel like software raid)

#5

LVM can be used without RAID too.

#6

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:56 +0000, Ellhound wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have 3 hard disks, each with a 1TB EXT3 partition. I was wondering if
> there is a way to mount them to the same directory. I’m using opensuse
> 11.1
>
> Thanks.

It’s possible…

You can use a unionfs or unionfs like thing (see fuse base union
filesystems as well)… google is your friend.

#7

Or just create symlinks to directiories from those drives in one directory :slight_smile:

#8

I suspect he wanted to concatenate the storage space, not to overlay them.