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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: help needed with directory problem
- Message-ID: <01GNQASO5TKY00020S@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 20:34:40 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 42
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- Stafford <Stafford@VAX2.WINONA.MSUS.EDU>, wrote:
-
- >In article <1992Aug15.014042.14635@ecst.csuchico.edu>,
- >rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder) wrote:
- >>
- >> I have a user who currently cannot receive any mail. The error message
- >> when PMDF tries to send mail to the user's account is:
- >> -RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
- >> -SYSTEM-W-DIRALLOC, allocation failure on directory file
- >>
- >> His mail directory has 560 files in it. What do I need to do to fix this?
- >> I tried creating a new directory and copying his mail files to it (via COPY
- >> and via BACKUP). Both of these attempts failed, giving the same error as
- > above
- >> on the new directory.
- >>
- >> Sorry if this is a RTFM question. I am out of town and just dialed in to
- >> check on the VAX and found this error. My FM's are not handy. 8-)
- >>
- >
- > Check the size of the directory entry itself. If it over 127, then
- >you may have a problem right there.
-
- Try $ HELP ERROR DIRACLLOC, which displays (in VMS V5.5):
-
- directory allocation failure
-
- Facility: SYSTEM, VMS System Services
-
- Explanation: The file system failed to allocate space to increase
- the size of a directory file. Because directory files must be
- contiguous, this error might be caused by the disk being full.
- More likely, there is not enough contiguous space on the disk for
- the directory, so the free disk space is being fragmented.
-
- User Action: Reorganize the free disk space by copying it with the
- Backup Utility, or restructure your application to use a larger
- number of smaller directories.
-
- -Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
- Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver
-
-