Subj : drive space checking...
To   : all
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Mar 31 2012 10:32:17


i've been running the universal flavor of allfix for many years... my system is 
OS/2 Warp 3 Connect with hpfs drives... i make sure that i load a module so 
that the 2gig overflow stuff is hidden from DOS programs... however, this 
doesn't work on the OS/2 side so i've always run my allfix from the DOS side...

so, i've had a problem for a long time where allfix would tell me that it could 
not move a file due to lack of drive space... however, if i manually removed 
the duplicate that would be replaced, then the allfix would properly move the 
new file to where it needed to be... it has been frustrating enough that i was 
just going to turn off some of the areas that this happens in all the time... 
yeah, i did turn off space checking in the setup but it didn't help...

then the other day i found the command line option -NoSpaceChk and was quite 
surprised to find that it works! YAY!!! no more full BADTICS directory and the 
files are properly moved...

the strange thing is that the configs are set (via setup) to not check drive 
space and REPLACE is allowed... so i don't understand why it was telling me no 
space on destination when it should not have even been looking... possibly an 
erroneous error message? it should maybe have been another one?

either way, i wanted to share the news that i finally fixed a problem i've had 
for a decade or better and just never really talked about out here :)

)\/(ark

 
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