Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: mcgrew@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Using extra client partitions .... Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 89 14:09:39 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 14:12:43 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 229, message 8 of 15 X-Issue-Reference: v7n212 > We have a 3/180 acting as fileserver to 4 3/50's with SUN > OS 3.5. The 3/180's disk is configured to support another 4 > clients, each system partition using about 7.7Mbytes. Since > we have no intention of buying new machines in the near > future, I was hoping to be able to mount these unused /dev/ndl > partitions and use them as mini-storage areas for the users. > We have a considerable number of researchers, all with needs. All you need to do is to put entries in your /etc/nd.local (for bogus hostnames - you can ignore the 'unknown host' messages) to do the kernel magic of setting aside the partitions as real. Then create the devices (in /dev), rerun nd (/etc/nd - < /etc/nd.local), mkfs the partitions, mount them on the local machine, update /etc/exports to allow them to be exported, and you're done. The system administrator's manual (how to add a client) will give most of this - all you're doing is mounting the partition on the server rather than on a client. If I've been unclear, please let me know and I'll try again... Thanks, Charles