Thanks guys. Its up and running! Dave Erickson wrote: > Florin Iucha wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:46:45PM -0500, Douglas Mosman wrote: >> >>> I'm planning to add a drive to my file server share but I wonder if >>> it will be too slow? >>> >>> Here's my setup >>> >>> sda2 - root (everything except /home) >>> hde2 - /home >>> sda3 - unused (14GB) >>> >>> using Samba to provide fill access to network clients >>> >>> My plan is to assign sda3 under the /home directory for network file >>> access. Specifically, I'd like to assign it to my private share. >>> >>> /home(hde2)/foo(sda3) >>> >>> While I haven't tried it yet, I'm assuming it should work. Also, I >>> can still keep my Samba assignments simple (currently I just have >>> public and the generic "home" shares). >>> >>> HOWEVER, will the system be accessing both hde2 (for /home) and sda3 >>> (for /home/foo) for every file access? Or will it know where >>> /home/foo is and directly access sda3 without traversing first to >>> /home (hde2)? >>> >> >> Regarding disk access, it will go directly to /home/foo. >> >> florin >> > > That will work fine. I have three SCSI disks mounted this way: > > /home > /home/dave/Media > /home/dave/Docs >