Oncheck -pe

Good Afternoon We have attemped to run an oncheck -pe (which prints the extents reports) it crashed with the following error: ISAM Error; illegal Key Descriptor (too many parts or too long) I am aware that oncheck -ce should correct the problem but should this be run without users and what if any are the pitfalls. Has anyone seen a similar error ? I plan to do a level 0 archive and back up the logs prior to the repair any ideas ? We are running 7.30 FC5 on a Tru64 4.0d PK4 2100 Alpha The system is running without any other problems and was rebooted 28 hours ago Regards Nick Leonard Systems Administrator Poole Hospital NHS Trust

In article <87eqej$kdr$1@news.xmission.com>, Nick Leonard <nickl@poole- tr.swest.nhs.uk> writes > >Good Afternoon > >We have attemped to run an oncheck -pe (which prints the extents reports) > >it crashed with the following error: > >ISAM Error; illegal Key Descriptor (too many parts or too long) > oncheck -pe creates files in /tmp. Make sure that /tmp is not full!! >I am aware that oncheck -ce should correct the problem but >should this be run without users and what if any are the pitfalls. >Has anyone seen a similar error ? > >I plan to do a level 0 archive and back up the logs prior to the repair > >any ideas ? > >We are running 7.30 FC5 on a Tru64 4.0d PK4 2100 Alpha >The system is running without any other problems and was rebooted 28 hours ago > > > >Regards > >Nick Leonard >Systems Administrator >Poole Hospital NHS Trust > -- David Williams