Re: Oh where has my disk space gone?

R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:

<I'm not going by the book, I'm going by experience.  ;-) >

Gottcha, but there are times when by the book isn't always bad. Remember CISC
to RISC ? :-)

<Do you _always_ do what IBM tells you?  <vbg>>

Yep, jumped off of a building last night :-) No of course I don't :-) Just some
things are legit I think.

<Anyway, I would submit that prior to an upgrade, if you need to apply ptf's
*perm to have enough room to load the software, that you will be completely out
of room as soon as you finish loading the newly bloated OS for whatever release
you are moving to, let alone loading two more cd's full of ptf's.>

That's not what I saw. I gained space after applying perm. I wish I remembered
the semantics of this (anyone) but applying perm cleans up a bunch of stuff,
removes duplicate copies (A and B) etc. I think (?).

<As for your example, it was a case study for what I said. You got 1.4 G out of
20, which is not the same as 1.4 G out of 50. Rebecca was looking for 10G+.>

So if she did it 7.14+ times more, she would get the 10G <VBG> Wink, wink,
nudge, nudge...

Chuck