On Sunday 14 October 2007, Michael Kress wrote: > Hi, I've got a buffalo 1TB DriveStation run in RAID 1 mode, i.e. 500G > space available, but that beast is preformatted in vfat. Buffalo doesn't > recommend to run it as ext2/ext3, so I mount a vfat drive wich has the > limitations "no symlinks, no uids, no gids, etc.". As I just want to use > the DriveStation as a backup target, I did the following: I created > files of 4G size with 'dd if=/dev/zero of=x01-backup.ext3 bs=1G count=4' > (as 4GB is the maximum file size under vfat) and formatted them as ext3. > I can mount them and work with them, no prob. Now I'd like to have my 25 > files of 4GB file size each coherently mounted as one 100G drive. Is > this possible? Must be something like Raid 0. > TIA Michael You might try something like this: http://osdir.com/ml/linux.lvm.general/2003-10/msg00096.html Personally I think it's a bad idea. :) Shawn