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- From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Splitting a user disk
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.101449.284@rlgsc.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 10:14:49 EST
- References: <1992Dec14.152423.9384@iscsvax.uni.edu> <71687@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY
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- In article <71687@cup.portal.com>, Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
- >...
- >>This *appears* to work, i.e., DIR STUDISK:[000000] shows all files in the
- >>MFD of both devices. A bonus (I think) is that they show up as a single
- >>list, not as separate lists as seen with DIR SYS$MANAGER, etc. Also,
- >>DIR STUDISK:[some-valid-directory] lists the files in that directory as
- >>expected.
- >>
- >>Is there anything obvious that I'm missing? Or worse, anything insidious?
- >>Or is there a better way?
- >
- > I apologize for including nearly Ken's ENTIRE posting, but I could't iden-
- > tify any "chaff" that could be left out...
- >
- > Up until last week, all of my users were in the [000000.USER.username]
- > directories of my system disk. A rooted logical name of SYS_USERDEVICE
- > pointed to [000000.USER.], so that [000000.USER] appeared as
- > SYS_USERDEVICE:[000000], and UAF "device" fields specifying SYS_USERDEVICE
- > so that logging in as any user and doing a DIRECTORY gives you
- >
- > Directory SYS_USERDEVICE:[username]
- > ...files...
- >....
- >
- > HOWEVER!!! Users whose directories resided on SYS_USER2: could not create
- > new files in their own directories if they referred to them by SYS_USERDEVICE,
- > only if they explicitly used SYS_USER2 instead. Editing new files into exis-
- > tence suffered similarly. Apparently file-creation doesn't handle the combi-
- >
- > ...
- >
- > appears to be impossible. Ken, you presumably won't have problems since
- > you've explicitly entered STU1 or STU2 in your UAF also, but it seems a pity
- > that this should be necessary. I'd appreciate any tips on making a "split
- > disk" truly transparent to the user, but I suspect it may be impossible...
- >
- > Chris Chiesa
- > Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
- --
- Ken, Chris,
-
- I would like to suggest a two phase process.
-
- First, to get rid of the immediate space crunch, use a Bound
- Volume Set. Point your existing logical name to the bound set and
- your present users will have no problems (I really mean NONE).
-
- As a second stage, start organizing your users into departments,
- for example, in a college environment, DISK$CS, DISK$CHEMISTRY,
- etc. Then each of those logical names can be moved from volume to
- volume as needed.
-
- I hope that the above is helpful. If I can be of further
- assistance, please feel free to contact me via Email or Phone.
-
- - Bob
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