Re: Suggestion for INSTALL PURGE and SHUTDOWN.COM

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
> This works for me. INSTALLED stuff will only be open on the node whose
> system disk this is. One can dismount the system disk of a particular
> node from all other nodes with no problem.

DISMOUNT/CLUSTER/OVERRIDE=CHECKS SYS$SYSDEVICE: doesn't get it
dismounted on the other nodes. "The system device cannot be dismounted".
So from the node where the disk is the system device, you can't issue
the command to dismount the drive.

So tecnically, one would have to use SYSMAN to send the dismount command
for other nodes to dismount your own system disk. It is a shame because
DISMOUNT/CLUSTER is so much more clean and short in a procedure.

My expectation was that DISMOUNT would have said "ok, I can't dismount
it here, but I should still send the dismount command to all other
nodes". It doesn't do that (VAX VMS 7.2)


Also, it is wrong to assume that the only installed files on a system
reside on the system disk. If you have apps loaded on other disks, they
may have installed files there too.
.

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