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- From: anos@elmrd6.ineab.ikea.se
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Fixing SYSTEM-W-HEADERFULL error
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.120522.27@elmrd6.ineab.ikea.se>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 12:05:22 +0200
- References: <BxoMzw.Jx9@irvine.com> <2369.2b04e86c@decus.ch>
- Organization: IKEA Northern Europe AB
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- In article <2369.2b04e86c@decus.ch>, mandach@decus.ch writes:
- > In article <BxoMzw.Jx9@irvine.com>, adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) writes:
- >> Please help us!! We're getting this error message and we're not sure
- >> what to do. Please email replies to abeneschan@irvine.com.
- >>
- >> Our situation: We have a Vaxstation 4000 model 60, VMS version V5.5,
- >> 1 gigabyte SCSI drive. There are 49112 files on our system, and our
- >> INDEXF.SYS file is 49190 blocks. (Each header in INDEXF.SYS is 1
- >> block, so it's not surprising that these figures are close.) If we
- >> say SHOW DEVICE/FULL, it says the maximum number of files is about
- >> 257000.
- >
- > Adam,
- >
- > your porblem may have to do with some initialization constraints (VMS
- > calculates these paramters based upon "used-to-be-values" With those
- > GIGA-byte drives that emerged in the recent time some default values
- > have not been adapted yet.
- >
- > Our way to overcome this problem was to backup the ENTIRE disk onto
- > another one which we initialized with a larger value for the para-
- > meter /MAXIMUM_FILES (see the Help-text from VMS: $ HELP INIT dev/MAX)
- > You could also use a tape and restore the entire disk with BACKUP but
- > I'd suggest to use the switch /NOINITIALIZE and previous to restoring
- > initialize the disk in question with a alrger value of MAX.._FILES.
- >
- > Hope this helps !
- >
- > Regards,
- > Hans
- >
- >
-
- I would say that the problem is that your INDEXF.SYS is too fragmented and
- can't be extended. I have had the same problem recently on a Vax 4000/100 in
- Belgium, and the way to fix it was to do an image backup, initialize the
- volume with /HEADER=n (4096 in my case) and the do the restore with the
- /NOINIT qualifier. Again, the problem is that VMS *assumes* that you will
- not have more that 16 files on your volume (do a DUMP/HEADER to check) and
- therefore allocated 16 blocks when the volume is initialized. After this,
- normal file extension is performed when needed, meaning a badly fragemented
- indexfile after a short period of time.
-
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