On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:13 pm, Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Reuben: > > I'm not entirely sure, but I believe SystemImager actually image your > entire disk. So I don't think what you want to do is achievable > (someone correct me if I'm wrong). > > For our cluster, we simply have a NFS shared out /home directory and > have found out that OSCAR is quite tolerant with that (i.e. it doesn't > blow the NFS files to bits ;-) ). > > What you might also consider is putting another HD into that computer so > that OSCAR can install the image onto it and then mount the /home > directory accordingly.
OK. We do that with /home (NFS exports to nodes from master), but it's getting full. Since the nodes of the cluster all have space , 40GB only used ~600MB for installation, I was thinking of resizing their / partition and add another partition so we can have like /home2 /home3, etc. If we ever need to rebuild the cluster or the image, then I don't have to worry about the imager destroying user data and find a place to back them up. But if that's not possible, I won't worry about repartition the disk, and just create the /home directory in / partition. Thanks. RDB > Cheers, > > Bernard > > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hello, > > Suppose I have the hard drive of the client node already partition in > > such a way, and it has 3 partitions, eg: > > > > /boot = /dev/hda2 > > / = /dev/hda3 > > /home = /dev/hda5 > > > > I want the node to download the image from the master, but how do I set > > up so that the imagre only installs stuff in the /boot and / partition, > > but without creating its own partition and messing up with my /home? This > > is necessary for example if I already have data in /home and just want to > > recreate the image. > > > > Thanks. > > RDB > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
