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- From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
- Subject: Re: Fixing SYSTEM-W-HEADERFULL error
- Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
- Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:06:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150630.19782@crpmks.uucp>
- References: <BxoMzw.Jx9@irvine.com>
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- 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.
- >
- >Our problem is that we can't create any new files on the system. If
- >we try to use the CREATE command to create a new file, we get this
- >error message:
- >
- >%DCL-E-OPENOUT, error opening DKA200:[VM.INTEL.74.JUNK]X313.DAT; as output
- >-RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
- >-SYSTEM-W-HEADERFULL, file header is full
- >
- >(Actually, at the time the above numbers were computed, some files
- >have already been deleted from our system since the error first
- >occurred.)
- >
- >We think the problem is that the system is trying to enlarge the
- >INDEXF.SYS file and can't.
- >
- >Thank you in advance for your help.
- >
- >--
- >Adam Beneschan
- >Irvine Compiler Corporation
- >email: abeneschan@irvine.com
-
-
- Sounds like it is time to do a backup / init /restore. The problem is that
- the default init values are the SAME FOR ALL DISKS, NO MATTER WHAT THE SIZE!
- I wish that DEC would address that problem.
-
-
-
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