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- From: olin@vger.cheme.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
- Subject: Re: disk storage question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.195859.12394@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, NY
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:58:59 GMT
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- In article <1k6gvtINNrt7@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder) writes:
- >Currently on our VAX 6310 we have 4 RA70 disks which are 280 MB each. One
- >of them I treat as a "system disk". I do not have anything on it other than
- >VMS (and Multinet). It currently has 200,000+ free blocks.
- >
-
- How did you manage to fit that much stuff on a 280MB disk and have that
- many blocks free? Amazing!
-
- >I have been asked by my boss to investigate increasing our disk storage on
- >that system. Most of the solutions I am looking at involve keeping our
- >existing controller (KDB 50) and just replacing the RA70's with larger
- >disks, like maybe RA72s which are 1 gig each.
- >
- >I have one question/concern about doing this: it seems to me that I will
- >no longer be able to justify setting aside one disk as a "system" disk,
- >since the new disks will be much bigger and thus there will be more "wasted"
- >space on it. I figured out that even if I moved all of our applications
- >(PMDF, Oracle, Word-11) to the "system" disk, the total size of all this
- >stuff would only be around 300 megs. So, what do other people do? Do
- >you put user directories on the system disk? Is this a problem for any
- >reason, i.e. when doing VMS upgrades? How about contention for the device?
- >
- >I appreciate any insights you can offer.
-
- You'll always find a way to use the space. I have two 850MB disks which
- are both used for system stuff only! I'd keep user files off the system
- disk if at all possible.
-
- steve
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