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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU ("would rather be skiing ...")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How to make VMSMail run lots faster
- Message-ID: <01GR2M5FVTIA00JZ53@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 00:33:13 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Nick Abbot <70303.1354@compuserve.com> apparently wrote, and
- <verifone!jimmy_t@UUNET.UU.NET> posted (on Nick's behalf):
-
- [...]
- > On a side note. You might want to BAC/IM these drives, and INIT them
- >with the /HEADERS=<very big>, ie. double the size of INDEXF.SYS now. This will
- >give your INDEXF.SYS the room to grow and not "fall apart" later. Then BAC/IM
- >to restore, using the /NOINIT qualifier to preserve the newly allocated size of
- >INDEXF.SYS. DIR/SIZ=ALL.
-
- Extending the INDEXF.SYS in this manner will only work in VMS V5.5-2, or if
- you've installed the backup patch to make your Backup the same as V5.5-2's
- Backup.
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
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