ras2@engr.uark.edu (Richard A. Smith) (12/09/90)
I am the newly promoted Sys Adm for a small network of Sun 4/110 (2 to be exact one host and one client) at my job. Sun Donated the Workstations to us and all we had to do was purchase the disk.. Well the adminstration only got the 327 Meg drive thinking that it would be plenty. So I am looking at many ways of consevering disk space (and still have a usefull system) The swap space has a lower limit of 40 megs per machine I currently have 45 per machine. Any suggestion on ways to squeeze more megs from the disk would be apreaciated.. 2. Since we have a small network (about as small as a network can get) I would like to have the client boot up just like the host so instead of the clients root being /export/client/root it would be the actuall root / filesystem and all other filesystems be pretty much the same for the clie host and the client. Is this a good Idea?? I would like to do this because of the ease that it would add to the task of installing software to run on both of our machines (I hate unix software protection schemes!! They are a big pain.) Necessary though I guess. Any and all comments are welcome. I really dread soring through the hundredes of manual pages (on-line and hardcopy) that it would take only to find that this is not a good idea for some unknown reason. Please make your responses as detailed as you wish!! I don't mind being taken by the hand and being led through the entire process. And don't take for granted that I really know anything relevant about sysem adminstration be- cause I don't! This is a really big step for me and I am still a little bit overwhelemed. (Having been a DOS user for 5 years) Please E-mail reponses. Richard A. Smith | Dont look at me, I'm still an ras2@engr.uark.edu | undergrad!! University of Arkansas @ Fayetteville | Disclamer: I'm a college student.