Re: Full system disk

From: Robert Deininger (rdeininger_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:11:18 GMT

In article <bin85g$56p$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, Chris Sharman
<chris.sharman@sorry.nospam> wrote:

>Chris Sharman wrote:
>> Now the system disk (1Gb rx26f) is full (12M free).
>>
>> I moved off the page files some time ago, and removed the dump file.
>>
>> There's quite a lot (84M) of *.*_OLD files around, presumably from the
>> installations I've just done (I had to delete all the older ones to
>> complete the installation). I presume these would be needed if I wanted
>> to use the product undo feature ? (I might, because I had trouble with
>> sys5 before, which is included in update 2). Could I zip & remove these?
>>
>> There's also around 300Mb of files with expiry over 2 years ago (we use
>> volume retention 1min/1day) - are there any system files which don't get
>> their expiry updated, which I shouldn't zip up & remove ? Are there any
>> good reasons not to zip & remove these ?
>
>Should have mentioned, it's an Alphastation 255/233, 96M memory, 1Gb
>system disk, 2G & 9G user disks.

1 GB is fairly marginal for a VMS system disk in recent versions. You can
install just fine, but maintenance, upgrades, and patches become painful.

If your time is worth anything, spend a few dollars on a handful of 2 or 4
GB drives (used, but likely newer than your 1 GB drive). Upgrade your
system disk.

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