Spanning file across disk partitions.

[Barry Shein]

>I have an application which writes large amounts of data 
>to a disk file. At times the file tends to exceed the disk 
>partition, resulting the application to crash.  Is there a 
>way to span the output file across different disk partitions 
>(which may be on the same or seperate physical disks) ?
>
>Application is in C and Fortran running under Unix (SunOS 4.0.3).
>
>thanks in advance,
>-Anil.

Some other Unix versions have added this (well, indirectly, through
disk striping) but in general, no. You'll have to manage this yourself
by closing and opening new files (or buying a bigger disk :-)

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	-Barry Shein

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