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From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
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Subject: Re: Slab on its side and odmach
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Date: 27 Feb 91 16:52:35 GMT
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In article <1991Feb27.024837.4103@albion.utah.edu> gchunt@hellgate.utah.edu  
(Galen Hunt) writes:
> I have two questions for those of you that are in the know:
> 
> 2) I've noticed that in the root directory on a 200MB slab there is a file
>    called "odmach".  There is also a file called "sdmach".  I assume that
>    "sdmach" is the Mach image used when booting off of the 200MB SCSI drive
>    and that "odmach" is the Mach image used when booting off of the 
>    optical, but considering that you can't connect an optical to a slab, is
>    there any reason why I shouldn't drop "odmach" in the recycler and
>    recycle the 700K that it uses?
> 

This will be the subject of a FAQ entry:
odmach and sdmach are links to the same file, so apart from aesthetics
removing it will not free up significant space.

If you are looking for space hogs in 2.0, Icon.app in /NextDeveloper/Demos
has the bad habit of dumping HUGE core files in it's directory.  You
need to go into the directory in a Terminal window (browser will not
allow you to do this) and examine the Icon.app directory for core
files,  remove it, it is of little use to you, and certainly I don't
think NeXT would be happy if you sent them the file saying "what went
wrong?"

Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
Media Laboratory, E15-351, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311
email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)