topic Re: Defragment in Operating System - OpenVMS

Defragment

Debasis Bhar — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:08:57 GMT

While running defragment for system disk i am getting the below message. Is it okay to run defrag on this disk? I know it will slow down performance of the system for the time being but my concern is that it should not corrupt or crash the system..

TEST01$ defrag volume alphasys
Disk File Optimizer for OpenVMS DFG V2.9
© Copyright 2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company,L.P.
%DFG-W-INVDEVNAM, ALPHASYS is an invalid device name
-SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHDEV, no such device available
Device not suitable for defragmentation, do you wish to continue (Y, [N])? n
%DFG-W-USERABORT, command aborted by user
TEST01$

Re: Defragment

Steven Schweda — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:18:47 GMT

So, what's "alphasys"? Have you tried
specifying a physical device name?

Re: Defragment

Steven Schweda — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:38:37 GMT

Or, perhaps, "disk$alphasys"?

SHOW LOGICAL DISK$*

Re: Defragment

Debasis Bhar — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:58:41 GMT

Physical disk name worked!! I thought volume refers volume label.

Thanks,
Deb

Re: Defragment

Debasis Bhar — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:59:58 GMT

i have got my answer....

Re: Defragment

Steven Schweda — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:10:51 GMT

The HELP is pretty uninformative/unclear:

DEFRAGMENT

VOLUME

Parameters

volume-name

The volume-name parameter is the name of the volume to be
defragmented.

(Who writes this stuff?)