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- From: carlb@tamsun.tamu.edu (Carl A. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Deleteing Directory Tables
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 15:52:50 -0600
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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- In article <1993Jan4.210355.1108@novell.com> dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:
-
- >This really isn't my area, but you may want to look into the use of the PURGE
- >command. I think this will remove all deleted files from the Directory Table,.
-
- >Dan Seeman
-
- You're kind of right. The way I understand it, NetWare has two "kinds" of
- disk space: file space, and what I'll call "overhead" space. The sum of
- the file space (used to store files) and the overhead space is the total
- disk space on the server.
-
- The "overhead" space (my term, not NetWare's) is used to store things that
- are not strictly files, for example File Allocation Tables and (I think)
- name spaces for volumes. The directory tables are also in "overhead"
- space. Each directory table is 64K and can store 32 directory entries,
- which consist of the directory name, locations, etc. When a directory is
- created and there isn't a free directory entry (and I think that sometimes
- even when there is a free entry), a new 64K directory table is created.
- When a directory table is emptied, it doesn't get deleted like I would
- prefer it to, and the 64K stays in "overhead" space, keeping that space
- from being used by files.
-
- Our local guru says that the only way that he knows to get rid of this
- problem is to delete the partition and re-install it (and I don't want to
- do that - it's a royal pain!!! :-( ) and I'm hoping that someone out there
- knows another way to do it.
-
- Thanks,
-
- -Carl
-
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- Carl Brown / carlb@tamu.edu / CSC-RMF / Texas A&M / 845-0808
- The only thing that is impossible to do in Unix is to figure out
- how to do certain things. -me (I think :)
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