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Convert: RMS file corruption
The Question is:
After running ANAL/RMS/CHECK I have 2 indexed files that
recieve the following errors:
"Index bucket references missing data bucket"
These errors are preventing me from running the
CONVERT/RECLAIM procedures on these files to free up
the space occupied from deleted records, and causing these
files to grow excessively large.
What action should I take to repair these files>
Please help, as I am running out of DISK space.
The Answer is:
You did not specify any VMS version. Several problems were
fixed in CONVERT/RECLAIM for VMS V6.1. If you are not running
V6.1 yet then you may want to switch over to that (or perhaps
run the convert from a 6.1 node in a cluster). If you do switch
to 6.1 then please be sure to obtain a suplimentary patch kit
for convert/reclaim:
CSCPAT_1181 VAXRMS01_061 Mail/Convert VAX V6.0-V6.1 ECO Summary
CSCPAT_2062 AXPRMS01_061 AXP V6.1 Mail/Convert ECO Summary
Anyway, The way to fix the corrupted file: perform a normal CONVERT.
That is, get an FDL for the file (ANA/RMS/FDL) optionally edit that
to reduce initial alloction. For example make the allocation be a
quarter of the current file and the extend size to be one eight or
a quarter of the current size (with a max of 65000). And then issue:
$CONVERT/FAST/NOSORT/STAT/FDL=yourfdl old new
Contrary to CONVERT /RECLAIM this full convert can (and will) reduce
the allocated size of the file. For this and others reasons we recommend
running a normal convert every-so-often.
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