topic Re: Disk space checker in Operating System - OpenVMS

Disk space checker

Joshua Gould — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:39:00 GMT

Hello,

I searched on Google without any luck. Is there a standard or highly used disk space checking script that someone could point me to? I'm sure I could write one but no need to reinvent the wheel.

Thank you,

Joshua

Re: Disk space checker

Steven Schweda — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:59:51 GMT

I know of nothing standard. The one I use
should be available at:

http://antinode.org/ftp/misc/disk_check.com

I haven't looked at since I wrote it
(23-FEB-2001) so it may be sub-perfect.
(No bets on overflow in calculations on
large disks, for example.) But the basic
concepts might be sound.

Re: Disk space checker

Jan van den Ende — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:20:31 GMT

Joshua,

there exist many variations to this theme.

I myself posted
http://dcl.openvms.org/stories.php?story=04/05/27/8944070

but if it is not what you need, skim true dcl.openvms.org and there alone you will find more than half a dozen.

Have fun!

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: Disk space checker

Robert Gezelter — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:30:07 GMT

Joshua,

As a side comment, if you are writing something, I would suggest that you take a look at the formats for the T4 data collected data files.

The format is straightforward, and if you adhere to the format you will be able to include the space data in your analysis should it become necessary.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Re: Disk space checker

Leif R. Jansson — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:56:00 GMT

Hi

Here is an old DCL-procedure that may be used as is or as a template.

/Regards
Leif J

Re: Disk space checker

Robert Atkinson — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:01:21 GMT

Joshua, there's a Freeware utility called FREE ( http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?FREE ) that displays all of your disk usage data.

It doesn't have a monitor utility, but could easily be adapted through DCL to monitor.

Rob.

Re: Disk space checker

Martin Vorlaender — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:14:02 GMT

Joshua,

I use a variation of the old RoboVAX script of Kevin G. Barkes' DCL Dialogue which monitors disk space among other things.

HTH,
Martin

Re: Disk space checker

Joseph Huber_1 — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:43:17 GMT

My rewrite of Jeff Camerons disk_space.com,
which handles big numbers, displays MB or GB in addition to blocks, uses no temporary file:
http://wwwvms.mppmu.mpg.de/util_root/com/disk_space.com