From: SMTP%"RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM" 15-AUG-1994 12:18:37.91 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: Need program besides Analyze for multiply alloc blocks From: seymour@u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Need program besides Analyze for multiply alloc blocks Date: 14 Jul 1994 17:37:01 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 12 Message-Id: <303t3t$3ct@news.u.washington.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: stein3.u.washington.edu To: Info-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET In article <302vu9$n0f@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, Carl J Lydick wrote: >: VERIFY doesn't allow you to check only for multiply allocated >blocks. It insists on checking everything. It's not difficult to write a >program that: > 1) Inhibits allocation on the disk; > 2) Checks ONLY for multiply allocated blocks; > 3) Removes the inhibition of allocation on the disk. ...don't forget to access INDEXF.SYS for shared write access between steps 1 and 2... that flushes the in-memory caches back to the disk. --dick