On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With IXFP you have the ability to delete a functional device (VM Volume) > which will totally remove any backend storage. Doing a CMS format of a > volume stills leaves a few megabytes of backend storage. You can also get > reports that will show the amount space used on each functional devices. > You may find that some volumes still have data on them that you were not > aware of.
Listing how much each functional device is being used would be great, because before I started working here, a lot of snapdisk was done, so I'd rather get rid of real data than snapshots that aren't taking up much space. But how do I do that ? There's no IXPF user, but I did find loads of SIB* EXEC files on one of MAINTSTK's disks, is that something to do with it? Is there no Rexx script that simply issues RVA commands to colect all free space now? or a way to remove all backend storage associated with DASD labelled as FREE? (Or, if there exists a Linux utility to do this, that would be even better.) The problem is, as with normal HD defragmenting, it's difficult to defragment with no free space, and our usage now reads 99.402%. The RVA documentation reccomends 75% usage... so we'd like to force some deletions as it's unlikely the RVA will want to defragment or tidy itself up. Thanks again for the help. Ashley Chaloner.
