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From: dave@wsccs.UUCP (Dave E Martin  "VAX Headroom")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Symbolic links to cross-posted articles
Message-ID: <235@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 23:31:20 GMT
References: <185@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <23012@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3379@killer.UUCP> <691@oberlin.UUCP>
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Summary: reformat not needed.

In article <691@oberlin.UUCP>, jkingdon@oberlin.UUCP (Jim Kingdon) writes:
> is that if you SET FILE/REMOVE the last reference to a file, instead
> of deleting the file, those disk blocks just sit there until you
> reformat the disk.  I'm pretty sure that there are RMS calls to do
> this stuff from a program too, but I've never used this stuff much.

You don't need to reformat the disk, try analyze/disk_structure/repair
with an optional /confirm.  I recommend one of these every now and then.
(say once every few reboots).  this will get rid of temp files
that existed without a real filename when the system crashed too.