[iyonix-support] Re: Hard disc problems

On Dec 20, 2006 08:38 PM, David J. Ruck <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 20 Dec 2006 Tony Abbey <afa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I ran discknight and it showed that the disc is OK.
> 
> In which case they are all valid directories and not multiple spurious
> ones
> appearing because of a map corruption as I first suspected.
> 
> > I couldn't see how to use it to remove the thousands of directories
> > created
> > by Aemulor, so I am in the process of running a BASIC program to go
> > to each
> > directory, delete the Log file and then the directory.
> 
> Can't you just delete from the filer?

No - it takes several minutes to update the window on the desktop for
each deletion because of the number of files. Perhaps if there is a
wildcard command which can delete directories with a file in them (ie
the Aemular dump log), then I could have done it without writing a
program. At least with my Basic code its only taking about a second per
entry, so it will take less than 24hours to delete the 63360
directories.
> 
> > It will probably take some days to finish the job, but hopefully the
> > system
> > will be repaired.
> 
> It should be ok once the directories are deleted.
> 
> > Has anyone else had problems with Aemulor filling the disc with
> > dumps?
> 
> Some program you are running must be making repeated attempts to spawn
> another program handled by Aemulor which is then failing. You'll juts
> have to
> keep an eye out for it occuring again, and not what you are trying to
> do.

I didn't realise I was running anything unusual - the monitor was
switched off, and I hadnt specifically run anything new on the machine
for a few days. Of course I realise there are a lot of processes
churning away in the background. I have had recent problems with trying
to read some old documents in Impression Publisher, and changed the
Aemulor setup to allow it to run.

regards
Tony


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