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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.emeraldis.com!david From: david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: INN setup on group of drives Date: Tue, 30 Jul 96 23:31:49 GMT Organization: Emerald Internet Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4tm6u8$knq@jade.emeraldis.com> References: <4tk0i9$fvv@access5.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: david.emeraldis.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 The best way to handle this is to mount the spool directories on different drives. For example: /dev/sd1h on /usr/var/news/spool/comp (local) /dev/sd2h on /var/news/spool/alt (local) /dev/sd3g on /var/news/spool/rec (local) /dev/sd3h on /var/news/spool/misc (local) You can achieve this using the mount command. Take a look at the mount man pages to learn more about using it. Notice above, that for the smaller groups, you can partition the drive and mount them on seperate partitions. David G. Cannon P.S. - You will get the best performance doing it this way also. In article <4tk0i9$fvv@access5.digex.net>, briang@access5.digex.net (Brian G.) wrote: > I want to set up a news server using a few 1GB & 2GB drives for > the news spool, instead of a single big drive. > > Can INN handle this correctly by simply using symbolic links (eg: alt -> > /news1/alt, comp -> /news2/comp, etc)? Do I have to set up anything > different with BSDI2.1 or will it support this feature out of the box? > > TIA, > > - bg