Hi Connie, The computer was trying to tell you to take the day off :) hehehe Actually, I think that it probably was using part of the space discfree was showing as available for something else??? I know someone more knowledgeable than me will correct me :) Art "I need a day off!" Bahrs >>> Connie Samuel <[log in to unmask]> 11/12/97 09:50am >>> 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.