Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!btnix!crouch
From: crouch@btnix.UUCP (Chris Rouch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: lost disk space
Message-ID: <692@btnix.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 17:31:20 GMT
References: <346@dalcsug.UUCP>
Lines: 28

From article <346@dalcsug.UUCP>, by logan@dalcsug.UUCP:
> 
> 
>    Hello,  I have a small problem which someone might be able to solve:
> 
> doing other things which have pushed my storage to the limit, whenever I do a
> SHOW QUOTA, I get a "blocks used" which is higher that the blocks used count
> which I get with a dir/full.  This is true even when blocks which are allocated
> but not filled are taken into account (such as a one block file which is
> allocated 3 blocks).
> 

I have not heard of a system where the diskquota total matches the total
actually used. However diskquota takes notice of files you own anywhere on the
disk, not just in your directory tree, so if you use something like CMS, this
may distort your diskquota figure even more.

		Chris Rouch

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vax to vax (UUCP)       CRouch@axion.bt.co.uk (...!ukc!btnix!crouch)
desk to desk            RT3124, 310 SSTF,
			British Telecom Research Laboratories,
			Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH, IP5 7RE, UK.
voice to voice          +44 473 646093

	"Ours is not to look back, ours to continue the crack."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------