> You might try using a symlink, I.E.
>
> ln -s /dev/sda1 maxtor
>
> Which would create a symbolic link called maxtor to /dev/sda1
...
>
> On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Ivan Vassilev wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Does anybody know some software to make a virtual disks?
> > I mean, if you have two or more phisical partititions, to mount them
> > on one directory which will have the summary space of mounted slices!
Better yet, check out MD. I believe it is what you want, and support is
built into newer kernels. Here's the lsm:
Begin3
Title: Multiple Device driver
Version: v0.35
Entered-date: 09JUN96
Description: Device driver used to group several block devices
as a single drive, whatever the interface type.
Support for RAID-0 (disk striping).
Also supports linear concatenation of devices.
Keywords: device driver hard disk RAID striping
Author: zyngier@ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (Marc ZYNGIER)
Maintained-by: zyngier@ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (Marc ZYNGIER)
Primary-site: sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr public/Linux
32k md034.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.mcc.ac.uk pub/linux/ALPHA/md
linux.nrao.edu pub/linux/packages/MD-driver
Platform: Linux 1.99.14
Copying-policy: GPL
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