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From: pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: GO.BAT and RESTART.BAT
Message-ID: <232@rwing.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 10:49:05 GMT
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tan@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Shufeng Tan) writes:
> In article <1991Feb8.005302.24572@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
> ..............
> 
> I have another problem with Novell netware which is a hundred times worse
> than GO???.BAT and RESTART.???.  Under each user's directory, a hidden
> directory call DELETED is created by Netware. This directory contains many
> junk files named DELETED.???. They accumulate a lot faster than GO???.BAT and
> RESTART.???. I really don't understand what is the purpose of these files.
> They just pile up there until the system bombs out.  It took me days to
> delete these junk files. Can someone help me on this bussiness?  I will
> be very grateful if you can get rid of them.

I think you are talking about the stuff that makes it possible to get
back a deleted file using the SALVAGE utility.  The files in the
hidden subdir should be removed by the system (as I understand it)
when space needs require it.  One can manually force removal of these
files using the PURGE utility - cd to the root dir and say:

PURGE /ALL

and they are all permanantly removed (salvage cannot recover them
anymore).  I make it a habit to do this every once in awhile, so far
the system hasn't bombed on me, and its a pretty busy one.  Maybe I'm
just lucky, if so I hope it holds out...  :-)

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