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From: XRBEO@VPFVM.BITNET (Bruce O'Neel)
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Date: 7 Jan 88 00:00:37 GMT
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Re: Device full errors.

Someone commented that you could avoid a "directory full" indicated by a
device full error from rms by moving files into sub directories.  Given my
limited understanding of ODS-2 (the cryptic name DEC uses to name the disk
structure most of us run on our vms disks Online Disk Structure 2), this is
not quite right.  The device full message from rms occurs when either you
have no free blocks (the obvious) or when the file INDEXF.SYS is full.
INDEXF.SYS holds file headers, one for each file on the disk.  It is not
important where these files are, just that INDEXF.SYS has no more space
to put a new file id.

Hope this is right and helps.
bruce <xrbeo@vpfvm> on bitnet, use this weeks path(s)