mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu (Matthew L. Demsey) (01/09/91)
As far as the person who asked if all slabs had the 100 MB capacity (105 slabs...): Mach OS states that the drive is identified as a QUANTUM LP105S. but then goes on to state its capacity is 100MB, so NeXT did supply the specified 105... hmmm... anyway.. question of the day is: in /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot there is a copy of the original system - everything, i assume being updated at logoff.. is there any purpose for this if i'm not linked to a network and if there is no purpose is there a way to disable the update and free up the 20-30 MB its eating? Thanks in advance.. Loki
bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) (01/13/91)
In article <621@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu (Matthew L. Demsey) writes: > anyway.. question of the day is: in /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot > there is a copy of the original system - everything, i assume being > updated at logoff.. is there any purpose for this if i'm not linked to > a network and if there is no purpose is there a way to disable the > update and free up the 20-30 MB its eating? It's called a "symbolic link". There is a link somewhere in the hierarchy that you mention that points back to the root ("/") of the filesystem. You are not seeing a second copy of the hard disk (or third or fourth or ... check in /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/), you are following the pointer back up to the top again. This is useful, because it is a proper installation of tftpboot. > Thanks in advance.. Loki One of the guys at our site (thoth) want to know if you play Empire. If the answer is positive, please stick to running countries :-) -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Bartholomew UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!mathlab.math.ufl.edu!bb University of Florida Internet: bb@math.ufl.edu