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James_DT

 posted on 30th Mar 09 at 23:36

quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
quote:
Originally posted by James_DT
Symbolic links would also work.


Symbolic links (ln -s) are linux only... Windows refers to them as Junctions, and thats what has been mentioned above in regards to mapping a drive to a folder using the disk management console.

Not since Vista. Vista brought support for NTFS symbolic links.
Obviously using XP though, Junctions are the only way.


Toby

 posted on 30th Mar 09 at 12:56

to be honest i would just use them as a RAID, so much easier and probably cheaper as a intenral HDD is much cheaper than a External.Ive just bought a 2tb WD green HDD for my media player and its great, slower drive so less heat and noise, cant complain


PaulW

 posted on 29th Mar 09 at 23:36

quote:
Originally posted by James_DT
Symbolic links would also work.


Symbolic links (ln -s) are linux only... Windows refers to them as Junctions, and thats what has been mentioned above in regards to mapping a drive to a folder using the disk management console.


James_DT

 posted on 29th Mar 09 at 22:19

Symbolic links would also work.


PaulW

 posted on 29th Mar 09 at 10:56

Yes that is possible

1 drive assigned to each folder :)

[Edited on 29-03-2009 by PaulW]


xa0s

 posted on 29th Mar 09 at 09:53

Alright, so if I buy 2-4 1tB external USB HDD's, can I plug them all in and map them to:

C:\DVDs\Comedy
C:\DVDs\Horror
C:\DVDs\Action

For this media streaming program I have, they all have to be in the same folder...

Is that possible?


Dom

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 21:34

If you had Windows Server you could use software raid and span across multiple drives (so it'd show up as a single drive) - although i think you'd need to store the data somewhere whilst creating the raid, plus if one dies it takes the whole lot with it.


PaulW

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:22

quote:
Originally posted by xa0s
quote:
Originally posted by John
There's a way in windows to map folders across different drives, would work in the way you want it.

Sounds good. Any more info?


You won't be able to extend a single folder though, just create the new drive as a folder inside another...

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/02/19/how-to-mount-and-access-new-partition-volume-or-drive-as-folder-path-in-windows/


xa0s

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:18

quote:
Originally posted by John
There's a way in windows to map folders across different drives, would work in the way you want it.

Sounds good. Any more info?


oceansoul

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:14

i might be wrong here. but cant you just create a new folder and put shortcuts to your movies in that folder. then you can start filling up your external hard drive, and have a shortcut in your new folder (with shortcuts to the films on your original 1tb drive) to them movies.


PaulW

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:08

quote:
Originally posted by Doug
Can you not just get another 1TB drive and raid them?


where will he put the existing data though for when he sets up the raid...


PaulW

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 13:07

quote:
Originally posted by John
There's a way in windows to map folders across different drives, would work in the way you want it.


from how I read the original post, he wants to span a single folder/partition map over multiple drives. As he said "use the same folder"


Doug

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 12:44

Can you not just get another 1TB drive and raid them?


John

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 12:38

There's a way in windows to map folders across different drives, would work in the way you want it.


PaulW

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 12:23

then no. the only way to have it in a folder is go into drive management and then tell it to mount into a folder.

You can't make it extend an existing partition


xa0s

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 12:14

quote:
Originally posted by Leighton
when you say server, are you running a server OS ?

No, just a Windows box in the loft to store everything on. It's also used as a web server too.


PaulW

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 10:28

If your using Linux, you can use LVM2 to create an expandable filesystem


Leighton

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 10:25

when you say server, are you running a server OS ?


xa0s

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 08:43

What kind of question is that?


Balling

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 08:33

I don't know of any way to do this. As far as I know, it's not possible.

Why do you have more than 1tb of movies, though?


xa0s

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 08:22

Just had an idea. Would it be possible to make a folder, and when you open that folder the files from both two different locations appear? Is there a Windows application that allows this at all?


xa0s

 posted on 28th Mar 09 at 08:21

Is there anyway to plug an external HDD into my server and have the space 'added on' to my original HDD?

I'm not sure how to explain it really. I have a certain folder with tons of DVD and Blu-ray rips, and it's nearly full (1tB). I'd like to add a external HDD but use the same folder.

Is there anyway to do this? If not, is there anything even remotely similar I can do? I really don't want just another drive to appear and so on. :(