Re: Cooked Space Problem

Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> wrote: => This is a situation that can only be solved with caution. As long as you do => not shutdown the server, you will be able to continue working because a "rm" => by Unix only deletes the entry in the directory. The I-node (which is the => actual file) will be deleted (and ther disk space freed) at the moment when => the last process (i.e. Informix) closes it. => What I would do (I hope I will never be in this situation as I use raw => devices) is: => 1) stop users working (maybe by going to the quiescent mode) => 2) perform a database backup => 3) shut down informix (ouch!) => 4) restore the database Helmet, Thanks for the info. I "dbexport"ed all of the databases, shutdown the databases, then did an "onit -i" and "dbimport"ed the databases. Everything's back to normal. -- ----- Name: Harold Sasaki Email: hsasaki @ harold.com (remove spaces) Web: http://www.harold.com/