Mark, Lars (and the list),

The system was booted with a START NORECOVERY over the weekend.  This a.m. I
was able to purge the /APACHE account and all its groups and subdirectories.

A special thanks to Mark and Lars for their suggestions.

Steve Barrett

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bixby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 5:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Recovery of File Space


Barrett, Steven P. writes:
>
> <long story omitted></>
>
> Earlier today I did a "rm -fr /APACHE/PUB/*" from the Posix shell.  This
was
> several hours ago and I've yet to see any of the file space recovered by
the
> system.  After the "rm" command, I attempted to purge the APACHE account
> using "purgeacct apache" from the manager.sys logon.  I received the
> following CI error message:
>
>         :purgeacct apache
>         ACCOUNT APACHE TO BE PURGED? (YES/NO)yes
>         In use.  Can't be purged. (CIERR 916)

Looks like you may be a victim of patch MPEJXV9B which breaks rm -r and
leaves
bogus non-zero usage counts on POSIX directories which you won't be able to
completely purge unless you reboot your machine.

Patch MPEKXL0A fixes this problem.  Use :PURGEDIR ;TREE as a safe workaround
to nuke your POSIX directories until you can install this patch.
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