NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/unix/ultrix/6311

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From: [e-mail] (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: Stuff I can serve to conserve on disk space
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Date: 18 Aug 92 21:23:32 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> Mike O'Connor <[e-mail]> writes:
>I'll be getting a lot of DECstations clients running in a
>non-DECnet/TCP-IP/X environment.  They'll be connecting to a DEC
>"server" of some description and all will running the same version of
>Ultrix (I hope :) ).  I'd like to pare down on the amount of disk
>space that each client takes for the OS load.  Besides man pages, what
>are other sorts of things that I can either:
>
>    A.  Serve from my server
>    B.  Probably get rid of

We have a Visualization lab of 8 DECstation 5000/200 PXG systems with
a DECstation 5000/200 CX as their server.  Each of the PXG systems has
a local disk with root and swap on it.  The server and all the clients
share /usr, plus other disk partitions that are automounted from
the server (and other systems).  This cuts down what is needed locally
to the root partition (which includes /var on the server and clients).
You can make root as big as you want, depending on what Ultrix needs
on the root partition.


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