Re: /QOPT/QDFTOWN

Thanks for straightening me out!  That is definitely some weirdness.  I was
hoping I just found 2 GB of wasted space, but oh well...

Mike E.




Ah, now I get it. This is a Unix-like display. QDFTOWN is the _owner_, not
the directory. The directory is the "." at the right and means the
directory you are in. The ".." in the next row stands for the parent
directory ("root" in this case), which is owned by QSYS.

The leftmost string includes a "d" for directory, followed by various
authorizations ("r"=read, "w"=write, "x"=execute).

If you go to a command line, WRKLNK '/QOPT', and take option 8 on QOPT,
then page down, the same number is listed for its size. I don't know why
this is reported. It is, in fact the largest positive value for a signed
integer (INT4) and probably reflects some file system nonsense.

Basically, no problem, just strange behavior.

HTH

Vern

At 10:47 AM 3/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>No CD's or optical carts in any drives.
>
>If I use WRKLNK, I can't see anything in QOPT if the CD drive is empty.
>
>If I use qshell and do a ls -al on the QOPT directory, I see the
following:
>
>ls -al
>total: 2.097 gigabytes
>drwxrwxrwx   2 QDFTOWN  0            2147483647              .
>drwxrwsrwx  27 QSYS     0                294912 Mar 13 10:04 ..
>
>If this isn't really anything, then I'm not worried.  I can't claim to
know
>much about the workings of the iSeries, but the people around here who do
>have no idea what this is, and that worries me.
>
>Mike E.