Cleaning up the VMWare disk

Robinson, Andrew W. andrew.w.robinson at mms.gov
Wed Aug 24 15:56:05 UTC 2005


My apologies. This was NOT intended for the kickstart list obviously.
Sorry to clutter your mailboxes.

Andrew Robinson 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robinson, Andrew W. 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:46 AM
> To: Henshaw Young, Beverly; Fouquet, Errol; Sharp, Dennis; 
> Thomason, William B
> Cc: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Cleaning up the VMWare disk
> 
> One of the key learnings Craig and I learned at the VMWare class was
> that there is a limit to the number of files that can exist on a vmfs
> file system. We've been using the big vamps file system on 
> imsnolesxOMM
> to park files that someone might want in the future. Bzzzzt! 
> We plan to
> migrate off every file that is not owned by a currently registered
> virtual machine. We would love to completely delete any files 
> that will
> not be needed ever again. The attached spreadsheet contains a list of
> the "un-owned" files that we plan to migrate or delete. 
> Please check the
> list and let us know if any of those files should not be migrated.
> Please let us know which ones can be deleted.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Andrew
> 




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