Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!samsung!rex!uflorida!bikini!bb From: bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The 105HD and file removal query.. Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 04:59:30 GMT References: <4463@network.ucsd.edu> <621@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: /cis/lightning0/bb/.organization Lines: 30 In-reply-to: mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu's message of 8 Jan 91 19:47:02 GMT 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