Dear Connie, Like Bill Lancaster mentions, the file has to be build on LDEV1 on a single extend. Greetings, Jan Gerrit Kootstra Connie Samuel heeft geschreven in bericht <[log in to unmask]>... >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.