How Much space do I really have?

An ontape -s to disk takes up 500Megbytes. If this is so, why does onstat show we have used 49.8% of the disk ????????? We have a 2 Gig Disk and Informix allocates all of 2 GIG : ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace nameROOTPATH /users/informix/release/links/rootdbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 2000000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)MIRROR 0 PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log PHYSFILE 60000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes) LOGFILES 40 # Number of logical log files LOGSIZE 5000 # Logical log size (Kbytes) > onstat -aaddress chk/dbs offset size free bpages flags pathname c46ab218 1 1 0 1000000 497653 PO- /users/informix/release/links/rootdbspace HP LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER : --- Logical volumes --- LV Name /dev/vgsg/lvdb LV Status available/syncd LV Size (Mbytes) 2032 Current LE 508 Allocated PE 1016 Used PV 2 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t5d0 PV Status available Total PE 508 Free PE 0 PV Name /dev/dsk/c1t5d0 PV Status available Total PE 508 Free PE 0 Thanks, Isaac ______________________________ Isaac Loven. Sys-Admin. NDS Asia Pacific P/L Mobile: 0438-288030 Work: (+613) 9256-5967 __________________________________________________

ontape backs up only thoise pages that have ANY data in them. You may have a fragmented database with many pages substantially less than 100% full. nonetheless, these will show up as "used2 by an onstat. Also, your logical and physical logs may not be backed, depending upon their state. Loven, Isaac <Isaac.Loven@team.telstra.com> wrote in message news:8m35ng$pbq$1@news.xmission.com... > > > An ontape -s to disk takes up 500Megbytes. > If this is so, why does onstat show we have used 49.8% of the disk > ????????? > > > We have a 2 Gig Disk and Informix allocates all of 2 GIG : > > ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name> ROOTPATH /users/informix/release/links/rootdbspace > ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device > (Kbytes) > ROOTSIZE 2000000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)> MIRROR 0 > PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log > PHYSFILE 60000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes) > > LOGFILES 40 # Number of logical log files > LOGSIZE 5000 # Logical log size (Kbytes)> > > onstat -a> address chk/dbs offset size free bpages flags pathname > c46ab218 1 1 0 1000000 497653 PO- > /users/informix/release/links/rootdbspace > > > HP LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER : > > --- Logical volumes --- > LV Name /dev/vgsg/lvdb > LV Status available/syncd > LV Size (Mbytes) 2032 > Current LE 508 > Allocated PE 1016 > Used PV 2 > > > --- Physical volumes --- > PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t5d0 > PV Status available > Total PE 508 > Free PE 0 > > PV Name /dev/dsk/c1t5d0 > PV Status available > Total PE 508 > Free PE 0 > Thanks, > Isaac > ______________________________ > Isaac Loven. Sys-Admin. NDS Asia Pacific P/L > Mobile: 0438-288030 Work: (+613) 9256-5967 > __________________________________________________ > >