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- From: rfranken@mcs213i.cs.umr.edu (Richard Brett Frankenberger)
- Subject: Re: Please Read (was Re: "Lost Space" on a 486/SCSI server (3.11))
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:01:55 GMT
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- In article <1htom3INNimk@tamsun.tamu.edu> carlb@tamsun.tamu.edu (Carl A. Brown) writes:
- >Before anyone else writes me to tell me, I know about purge, and of
- >the 60Meg that is missing, only 202K is used by deleted files.
- >That's why I included the data from chkvol. (Reproduced Below).
- >
- >If anyone knows what else could cause a server to "lose" disk space,
- >or what to do about it, please let me know.
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >-Carl
- >
- >---Begin (parts) of previous article.
- >
- >>I'm having a problem with my NetWare 3.11 server (486/EISA/16Meg/SCSI).
- >>The problem is that occasionally it will "lose" space, as in when you
- >>delete something (especially directories), it will not free up the
- >>space that the directory used, although it no longer exists.
- >
- Is the only problem with deleted directories. If so, this is normal.
- Once NetWare 3.11 allocates disk space for directory entries, it never
- returns that space for use by files. Example:
-
- MD TEST
- Server checks to see if it has sufficient dir entries for TEST.
- Lets assume it doesn't. It then allocates some for directoryt entries,
- resulting is less free space..
-
- RD TEST
- Server remopves TEST but does not return any free space for
- use by files.
-
- MD TESTA
- Server checks to see if it has free dir etnries. It will (RD TEST
- freed up some), so you do not lose any space here.
-
- You say you lost 60Meg, though, so it sounds like something else may
- be going on here.
-
- - Brett (rfranken@cs.umr.edu)
-
- P.S. MD TEST may alloctae free space even if there are empty dir
- entires. It also needs some for the files in TEST. I'm not sure
- exactly how the Novell Netware directory structure works.
-
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