RE: Freeing Deleted Disk Space

["Scotty Muir" <smuir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to make everyone aware, the RGZPFM that we discussed late last week and
that I ran over the weekend went well. It only took a few minutes and freed
up the space we were looking for.
I guess you get lucky once in while.
Thanks for the help.
Scotty

____________________________
Scotty Muir
SR. Systems Programmer
Triangle Suspension Systems
DuBois, PA.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of rob@dekko.com
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:31 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Freeing Deleted Disk Space



It is possible that if you do not have enough space to copy the file then
you probably do not have enough space to RGZPFM it.  Been there - done
that.  However if what you mean is that if your file is 1gb and you have
1.5gb free then you might not have enough space for the new copy AND the
temp space used by the RGZPFM of the new copy, then that is a different
story.
Make sure that your free space meets or exceeds the current size of the
file.

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin



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Dale and Others,

I appreciate the additional comments. I am planning on starting tomorrow as
soon as possible after a scheduled power outage. At least that way it has a
day and a half to hopefully finish. Unfortunately I do not have the disk
space to copy it before doing the reorg, but should have fresh backups from
tonight's run. Lets hope I do not need them.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Thanks
Scotty

____________________________
Scotty Muir
Sr. Systems Programmer
Triangle Suspension Systems
DuBois, PA.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Dan Bale
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:54 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Freeing Deleted Disk Space



Oh my.  Depending on the size of the file, the system, and a few other
minor
(?) factors, the reorg could take anywhere from a few seconds to several
days!  IIRC, there's no way to safely kill a reorg once it has started.
Yes, submit it to batch, but to be on the safe side, don't do it 20 minutes
before a "big" long-running process needs to use it.  Me, if this were the
first time and I needed to get a benchmark, I'd submit it at 5pm Friday,
and
make sure that, if it ran all weekend, nothing else would get hung up by
the
file being allocated *EXCL.  Make sure you set that job to log messages and
check the job log Monday morning.  If I had the disk space and was unsure
about the time it would take for the reorg to complete, I'd first CRTDUPOBJ
the physical and all its logicals to a temporary, one-time-use library, and
test the reorg on that.

My .02

Dan Bale
working from home today

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date:  Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:20:47 +0000

>
>Scotty,
>     RGZPFM  PFname   - but submit it to run in batch ! It might take an
>hour.
>Fiona
>
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