Re: Size of an ifs directory -- MIDRANGE-L

This is very late. In Unix and Linux, a directory has an initial size.
Once that limit has been reached, the directory grows. A directory is
equivalent to a sector. As entries are added, additional directory sectors
are added. There was never a command to reorg a directory. Perhaps there
is a tool from some vendor. But, for a simple method, if directory is NOT
empty, copy the contents to a new directory, preserving ownership and
dates. Then delete the original entries. Once directory is "empty", all
that remains is te directory space itself. Now, delete the directory
structure. Then create a new directory with the same name and ownership
and authority.

If directory had 5200 entries, it might have grown to 200 sectors. Maybe
not worth the hassle. But, this is a warning to avoid creating thousands
of entries in /. Fifficult to shrink /.

John McKee

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Gavin Inman <midrangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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On 5/4/2018 3:03 PM, Alan Shore wrote:

Thanks for your reply Gavin
Im pretty sure we don’t have that

Alan Shore
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Gavin Inman
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2018 3:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Size of an ifs directory

If you have a treesize pro license, you can treesize the IFS.

1) Setup "TEMPORARY" hidden share on the root of the ifs.
2) in Treesize - OMIT the following patterns
\QOpenSys
\QOpensys\*
\QfileSvr.400
Qopensys
QNTC
QOPT
QSYS.LIB
3) You must be using Treesize Pro which supports Network shares

It a little slow, but it really works in finding out where IFS storage is
used.

Gavin Inman
Michigan Supreme Court.

On 5/4/2018 11:10 AM, Alan Shore wrote:

Hi everyone
Before I forget - we are on V7r1

We are in the process of cleaning up the files on our ifs When I use edtf
'/' and page down to particular directories, then take an option 6 (Path
size), it displays the size of the ifs directory and the number of
SUBDIRECTORIES and FILES within that directory However - we have a
directory that has SUBDIRECTORIES = 0, FILES = 0 But the size of the
directory is 5,292K Does that make sense to anyone?
Is there a command to run against that directory to reorg it and free up
that space (like RGZPFM but for ifs directories)

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
'If you're going through hell, keep going.'
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