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Paul Wilkins wrote:
> 
> (de usr) wrote:
> >
> > I need to know how to get linux to see a second partition. I am using
> > RH4.2. I have a 170M root partition and  a 512M /usr partition and
> > swap. The other day the /usr partition ran out of space while
> > installing a program.I have made a new 512M partition and mounted it
> > but  would like linux to see the new patition and the /usr as
> > one.Bascily to increase the size of  the /usr partition. Can this be
> > done? How do I go about doing this?    thankyou.
> 
> Nope. You can't split a partition over devices. (Unless you count RAID
> but that's another story).
> 
> If you're installing software, you probably should be putting it in
> /usr/local anyway, so maybe the best thing would be to mount the new
> partition there.
> 
> Paul

I seem to recall something in the kernel config that supports
multi-partition file systems.  It may well be experimental, and I can't
find a refernece to it just now, but run a `make config' and follow it
through.

Has anyone else tried this stuff.  It may be something to do with disk
striping.

Yours faithfully,
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