Volume Compression

[bwarner]

I am getting the following error message on one of our 4.11 servers:

"Insufficient Disk Space on volume SYS prevented a newly decompressed file from being committed to disk in its decompressed format when the file was closed"

Compression is enable on SYS, but there is over 1.4 GB free on the volume. Could someone help me with this error? Thanks.

Barry

 

[Provogeek]

When was the last time you purged your SYS volume? Brent Schmidt CNE, Network +
Senior Network Engineer

Why do user go into a panic when a NetWare server goes down, but accept it as normal when a Windows server goes down?

 

[TheLad]

You'd better get removing some non-system critical stuff of SYS, and quick.

The following TID explains it briefly, buy I will say that I remember that when I was at another company one of their servers kept getting this error. The error was ignored by the local Support people and subsequently the diskspace got that low that they came in one morning to find that they had plenty of diskspace left as all of the compressed files had literally disappeared off the volume and had to be restored onto a volume with more diskspace available.

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2941603.htm

Also, I personally do not enable compression on SYS for this very reason - and I always have a 4Gb SYS volume regardless of how much is used. -----------------------------------------------------
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[bwarner]

Thanks for the reply. We're looking at data to delete on the volume.


Barry