Using disk space on net booted iMac

I have 20 iMacs i'm booting as diskless workstations. Can I mount the internal  drives of those machines on the server and use them for additional user storage? If so, what would be the best way to set that up?

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Open iTunes preferences Advanced tab.  Uncheck the box for Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library.  Click OK.
Now, when you add those songs to your iTunes library, iTunes will access the song files from the external drive, where they are currently located.  And you can sync them to your iPod.

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    /dev/disk0s2                       112Gi   81Gi   31Gi    73%    /
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    map -hosts                           0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /net
    map auto_home                        0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /home
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    The true amount is the higher of the two, in this case.
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    A friend has asked me to look into his external hard drive issue.
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  • Available disk space irregularity

    Hi, I have 999,35 GB hard drive capacity in my iMac.
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    Message was edited by: Pantomas78

    That number is in bytes, so yes, each of those is over 10 MB. If you have around 450 GB of unaccounted space, it would take 45,000 of those files to fill that space... it's possible you have that many, or its possible there are some much larger files mixed in there, or you may have other large files elsewhere.
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    If this isn't something you need, you can turn this off using the information at the following sites:
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    http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27544/how-to-completely-disable-auto-sa ve-and-versions-in-mac-os-x-lion
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