The following procedure can be used if you have IXFP installed on VM. This will release the backend storage for a given minidisk defined in the VM directory:
ATT xxxx to SYSTEM (this is the real address of the RVA ECAM device used for communication) Logon to user MAINTSTK LINK USERNAME XXXX YYYY MW (USERNAME is the owner of the minidisk) ACC 454 I (454 is where the IXFP software is installed on my system) SIBADMIN RELEASE MINIDISK(DEV(YYYY)) SIBADMIN QUERY MINIDISK(DEV(YYYY) USER(MAINT) NCL DRCT(YES)) Hank Calzaretta Wallace Computer Services, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Ashley Chaloner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 5:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RAMAC Virtual Array Full !! Our RVA is full and we don't know how to get the usage back down. The IBM documentation is ... less than helpful. We've offline'd 6 (out of 256) DASD, which dropped the usage by 0.5%, but we'd like it to get it little further down than that. Boths LPARs hung (got hanged?) and refused to re-IPL, with no error message at all. We have tried deallocating DASD ('DETach 10E0 SYSTEM') and labelling them as "FREE", or putting a clean CMS filesystem on, but to no avail. In fact, everything tried so far makes the usage creep up by 0.02% every hour or so. I'm told "IXFP" might be the thing we need, but I'm also told it only knows about CMS filesystems, so Linux deleted stuff never gets freed up by the RVA. Any help much appreciated. Ashley Chaloner. and just for the archives, in case anyone searches for this, before the system hang, we got the "information" message "CACHE MODERATE ALERT", which in our case meant disk unit full, which then made both LPARs fall over. And refuse to re-IPL.
