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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2297.0. "Reuse shared directorys" by ANGLIN::HARRIS (Let the party begin...) Fri Feb 19 1993 19:25

    hi,
    
    is this even possible?  i had a request from the customer to try and
    find a way to reuse shared directorys.  they run a housekeeping job to
    delete old mesages from the READ/OUTBOX folders so the size of the
    shared directorys is getting smaller.
    
    is there anything that can be done to reclaim space in these
    directorys?  ie: copy/contig ? convert?
    
    ALL-IN-1 2.4, VMS 5.5-1
    
    	Ann
    
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2297.1Recreate them!SIOG::T_REDMONDThoughts of an Idle MindSun Feb 21 1993 16:1919
    They won't get a lot of disk space back, unless the .DIR files are
    massive!
    
    Anyway, FWIW, you could...
    
    $ SET DEFAULT right-disk
    $ CREATE [.XSHARE1]
    $ RENAME/LOG [.SHARE1]*.* [.XSHARE1]*.*
    $ DELETE/LOG/NOCONFIRM SHARE1.DIR;*
    $ RENAME XSHARE1.DIR SHARE1.DIR
    
    In other words, create a new sub-directory, rename all the messages
    over into it, then delete the old directory, and rename the new
    directory in its place.  Of course, doing this type of thing with
    ALL-IN-1 active could seriously corrupt things!  Some testing to decide
    whether this method produces the desired result would also be a good
    idea.
    
    Tony