Re: disk storage

[Gary Feinstein <GFeinste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Palmer wrote:
> 
> Gary Feinstein wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to find out how much disk space I have left on my AS/400.  I
> >
> > am wondering why I get different results between a WRKSYSSTS cmd and
> >
> > PRTDSKINF *LIB cmd.  On WRKSYSSTS screen it says that I am using 39.5%
> >
> > of my ASP.  PRTDSKINF says that 80% of the disk space is being
> >
> > utilized.  Why aren't these two the same?
> >
> 
> You will always see a minor discrepancy, as WRKSYSSTS shows the usage at
> a specific point in time, whereas RTVDSKINF usually takes a few hours to
> run, and as the system is usually doing some other work the percentages
> can add up to a few points + or - 100%.
> Still - there's no way you should be seeing such a major discrepancy
> (40.5%).  Do you only have one ASP ?  Is it possible you haven't run
> RTVDSKINF for ages, and therefore PRTDSKINF is reporting the usage from
> the last time RTVDSKINF was run ?
> 
Doh!  That was it Neil.  Apparently when I issued a PRTDSKINF cmd it
printed the info from the last time the RTVDSKINF cmd was run which was
back in November.  Thanx for the heads up.
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