Tony,

VINIT (as well as any disk condense program) works best when there is
enough disk space to use as temporary storage to be able to move things
around (not well said, grammatically, but you get the point).  You need to
free up some space, VINIT CONDENSE, and move on.  The problem is that you
don't have enough free space of large enough pieces to do what you need to do.

Bill


At 11:41 AM 6/23/98 -0700, John D. Alleyn-Day wrote:
>One of my clients (who lurks on this list) has a major problem with their
>backup on an old MPE/V machine.  The backup fails with "OUT FO DISC SPACE".
> The system disc is horribly fragmented with the largest chunk being around
>1300 sectors.  Since SL.PUB.SYS is a whole lot bigger than this, I'm
>presuming this is the problem.  Running VINIT CONDENSE three times hasn't
>made a dent in the fragmentation.  Anybody got any suggestions on how to
>clean up the disc and recover from this - apart from doing a "store @[log in to unmask]@"
>and a reload?  The other possibility I have in mind is to change the backup
>to a simple store, but this doesn't solve the long-term problem as it makes
>reconfiguring impossible.
>
>
>John D. Alleyn-Day
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