Local disks in a diskless RHEL setup???

["Brent M. Clements" <bclem rice edu>]

Hi All,
 I have setup RHEL to do diskless computing and it was a snap to set up.
(Thanks Redhat for the tools btw). My question is this.

If I wanted to use the local disk on each sys for let's say...scratch.
how would I configure each client to wipe that scratch partition at each
boot and then remake the partition, then mount it for use?

I have a few ideas, but I wanted to see how everyone else would do it.

Would a simple sfdisk then mkfs in each diskless clients root/etc/rc.local
work fine? This is my simplist idea on how to do this.

-Brent



Brent Clements
Linux Technology Specialist
Information Technology
Rice University

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