Thanks you all for your replies. I had 75% perm and 75% transient space
reserve. Since all my perm space was taken, I was left with 25% transient
space free to play with.  My little brain understood Gary's explaination
best.

Thanks again,

Jean

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paveza, Gary" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] How can Transient free space be not full on a disk
if perm. free space is?


> Depends on how you have the system setup.  You can specify percentages to
> allow as a maximum for each one.  Say for example, you have a 1000 MB disc
> (so I like round numbers, so what :) )
>
> You can set transient to use at maximum 50%, and permanent to use say,
75%.
> That would allow transient to use up to 500 MB, and allow permanent up to
> 750 MB.  Now obviously, both cannot occur.  But what can happen is that if
> you use 200 MB for permanent, and used 500 MB for transient, your
transient
> free space would be 0 MB, but you would still have  300 MB free on the
disc,
> but 0 MB would be available for transient, while 300 MB would be free for
> permanent.
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Gary L. Paveza, Jr.
> Technical Services Manager
> (302) 761-3173 - voice
> (800) 217-5808 - pager
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Jean Huot [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>         Sent:   Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:08 PM
>         To:     [log in to unmask]
>         Subject:        [HP3000-L] How can Transient free space be not
full
> on a disk if perm. free space is?
>
>           I have a defective system disk which I filled up with garbage.
> When I run disfree.pub.sys, it tells me I have 533 Mbytes free for
transient
>         free space and 0 Mbytes for permanent free space.  How can that be
> possilble?
>
>
>         Jean Huot
>         Northern Credit Bureaus Inc.
>