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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: NFS
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Date: 31 Jan 91 16:14:59 GMT
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In article <1991Jan31.150259.28183@zoot.avgrp.cr.rok.com> jeff@satchmo (Jeff Detterman) writes:
>Is it possible to have two separate fstab files. One for
>ufs (local disks) and one for remote disks (NFS). The reason
>I want to do this is that I anticipate having a large number
>of machines to mount and it would be nice if I had one global
>fstab file. I talked to my local DEC wizzard and he suggested
>creating the fstab file at boot time from two separate files.
>Any other ideas. 

Look into using the automounter on your systems.  You can either have
automount startup files on all of them, or distribute the automount
maps via NIS (YP).  We use NIS to distribute our maps;  we have around
35 systems (DECstations and Sun 3s and 4s) mounting a common set of
4 partitions via the automounter.  One of our DECstations is the NIS
master.


Mike Iglesias
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