Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400/iSeries/System i -- MIDRANGE-L

Just a guess, but deleting profiles would delete the msgq with each user,and that may be your space. I thought somewhere way back (maybe 310 days)IBM changed how user profiles stored after someone posted a description ofits location. Just don't know if profile info in what we call a "file". If Iremove data from some sort of space, is that area given back for re-use oris it still allocated to the space?

Forgetting the hype and made up facts of today's forensic tv shows, I know

data has been retreivable from disks & tape after fires, water damage, andintentional efforts to destroy the drive.

jim franz

----- Original Message -----From: <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>

To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400/iSeries/System i

Actually a valid question. I cannot state with absolute certainty but Ido

  know that while deleteing an old 310 that had over 4000 (yes 4K) of user

profiles the thing dropped 5% disk usage as I recall just from that 2hour

  effort.  Objects being objects, it seems that deleting anything frees up
  that disk. Exceptions made for LIC and things like that I suppose.

   - Larry

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    To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    From: "Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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    Date: 01/19/2007 12:06AM
    Subject: Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400/iSeries/System i

> Now those things wouldn't be left if you deleted them now wouldthey?

    :-)
    > - Larry

I don't know enough to say whether a deleted user profile actuallymakes

    that disk space available for your file to expand and overwrite. Same
    for
    other objects other than what we think of as files & programs.
    Do you know? (not trying to be cute about this..)
    jim
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