[G4] Join Two HFS Volumes?

[Doru Bratu]

why don't you mount the filesystem on the second drive as a folder in 
the startup drive?
man mount ;)
On Jun 28, 2005, at 7:18 AM, Carlos wrote:

> I've got a G4 file server and I periodically have to add storage. With 
> drives as cheap as they are, I've been picking up a bigger ATA drive 
> every once in a while when they go on sale and adding it to the 
> machine. The thing I haven't been able to figure out is this: How can 
> I mount a drive so that it's file system is a branch off the startup 
> drive?  In other words, rather than a separate volume in 
> /Volumes/whatever and appearing on the desktop, I want to mount the 
> new drive under a specific node or path of the root (startup) drive.
>
> And before you say "just use an alias" (or a sym link), this doesn't 
> work when accessing the volume from a network host.
>
> I know I can setup a RAID using the ATA-133 controller I have, but 
> that means that every time I add a drive, I have to re-format the 
> RAID, and I have no need of the performance boost of a RAID 0 anyway. 
> What I'm really looking for is something like the old "join" command 
> under DOS. (yeesh, I'm dating myself) which splices the file system of 
> one drive onto another.
>
> I've read about the "union" option of the mount command, but that 
> appears to be under BSD formatted volumes only, and I'm not sure I 
> understand the function anyway.  Has anyone done something similar, 
> and if so, what is the best approach for my situation?
>
> TIA,
>
> Carlos
>
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