[DBvader]

I have an 80 gig HD in my Dual 867.

im a switcher, and i really like the organizational system that i have going on my mac...you know all the apps in the apps folder, all the media folders in home directory, etc.

i was thinking of adding another 80 gig HD in there, but i didnt really want to have 2 HDs, with stuff spanning both. is there any way i can make my mac think i have on HD with 160 GB?

[Axo1ot1]

Originally posted by DBvader:
I have an 80 gig HD in my Dual 867.

im a switcher, and i really like the organizational system that i have going on my mac...you know all the apps in the apps folder, all the media folders in home directory, etc.

i was thinking of adding another 80 gig HD in there, but i didnt really want to have 2 HDs, with stuff spanning both. is there any way i can make my mac think i have on HD with 160 GB?

Well you could use Disk Utility to stripe them as a software RAID. I've never tried installing system software on such a RAID, though.

What is your plan for this second HD? What kind of work do you do on your mac? It might actually be adviseable to keep certain files on a separate volume. For example, if you do audio and/or video editing, it's good to have a scratch disk other than the one your system is running off.

[Rainy Day]

Is there some reason why a symbolic link wouldn't do the trick for you?

man ln

[DBvader]

you mean like an alias?

[Rainy Day]

A symbolic link is the UNIX equivalent of a MacOS Alias, but works a little better for this kind of application. MacOS X uses them in a number of locations already. To reveal some of them, do

Code:
  ls -F /

Anything ending in an @ is a symbolic link.