garry@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU.UUCP (12/05/86)
In a recent article gr65%sdcc12@SDCSVAX.ARPA said: > On our MicroVAX VMS 4.4, I have 4 directory files that have >invalid format -- the first rec illegally spans a block (according >to ANALYZE/RMS)... >... >This latest problem cropped up in an amazing unrelated instance when my >co-manager deleted a duplicate pagefile.sys ... 1) You should do a SET FILE/NODIR on the bad .DIR files, unprotect them, delete them, and run ANAL/REPAIR again to recover the files that were in them. They mumble about this somewhere in the documentation. 2) Deleting an active Pagefile is a Bad Thing - the file system goes ahead and recycles those disk blocks, but the operating system just goes ahead and keeps writing them. Damn thing oughta be opened with a write-lock, but it happens so early in the boot there is no file system at hand to do the job. If you really want to, you can detach a job at system startup which just opens the pagefile and sits on it... (I just tried Installing it, but no dice.) garry wiegand (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)