Hi Connie,

If I'm not mistaken, the patch process wants that file to be in a single
extent on LDEV 1.

Bill Lancaster

At 10:50 AM 11/12/97 -0700, Connie Samuel wrote:
>This morning I was patching our 939 KS (MPE 5.5) with patch MPEJXT0.
Everything
>went along just great until I got to the instruction to build a 60000 byte
>file.  When I did that, the system responded that I didn't have enough free
>space to build a file that big.  So then I did a DISCFREE A and was told
that I
>had 1 block of 100000 = 1,887,694.
>
>So then I called the Response Center.  The engineer had me run CONTIGVOL
twice
>and try again.  Still got the error.  Then I purge a bunch of log files, ran
>CONTIGVOL again and this time I was able to build the file space and continue
>with the patch.
>
>My question is, does anybody know what the computer was really trying to tell
>me?  I was so relieved when it finally worked that I forgot to ask her
what had
>happened.
>
>