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- From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: BINDING System disk to another disk
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.135152.290@rlgsc.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 18:51:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.125112.1@vulcan.mentec.ie>
- Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY
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- In article <1992Dec17.125112.1@vulcan.mentec.ie>, peter@vulcan.mentec.ie writes:
- > I've a Vaxstation 3100 with 3 x 100 Mb disks; 1 for a system disk, 1 user disk
- > & 1 disk which I intend to use for products.
- >
- > Now, the problem arises because Decwrite & similar products need to be installed
- > on the system disk. However, by the time VMS and DecWindows are on the system
- > disk then there's not much room left for anything else.
- >
- > In order to overcome this problem I decided to use MOUNT/BIND to join the
- > system disk and the product disk together, so that VMS sees them as one volume.
- >
- > Great, I thought; but wait a minute, how do I dismount the system disk so that
- > I can MOUNT it using BIND ?? And that's the problem, I need some mechanism to
- > be able to mount the system disk so that I can bind it.
- >
- > Alternatively, can anyone suggest any other methods of achieving what I want?
- >
- > Reply by Email if possible, as I don't read this group too often.
- >
- > Thanks, Peter
- >
- >
- > --
- > Peter Thornton, | peter@mentec.ie
- > ----------------------- | ---------------------
- > Mentec Computer Systems, |
- > Dun Laoghaire, | "Everything you
- > Co. Dublin, | know is wrong"
- > Ireland |
- --
- Peter,
-
- While it does sound convenient, you cannot use a bound volume set
- as your system residence device. However, there is another solution
- which works quite well.
-
- Much of the bulk of files which end up on your system device are
- not needed during the bootstrap process, indeed, many of them are
- only used as include files during program development, or help
- files for the online help facility.
-
- These files will not be referenced during the startup process. In
- situations such as your own, I have freqently moved all of these
- files to another disk, then defined the logical names (e.g.
- SYS$LIBRARY) do point to a search list which includes both the
- original directory (on the system disk) and the overflow
- directory (on a different disk).
-
- The above solution allows you to free up a large quantity of
- space with almost no impact on system performance. If you find
- that your system disk is again filling up, find some more files
- to move to the other disk.
-
- I hope that the above information is helpful. If I have been
- unclear, or if you have other questions, please contact me via
- Email or phone.
-
- - Bob
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