by Pete <peter.charbonnier@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sep 20, 2007 at 10:48 PM
On Sep 19, 7:25 am, jul...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> The ISM Mumps database that I have somehow become responsible for is
> running short of space. I do lots of housekeeping, but at some point I
> know we are going to need to expand (most likely when I am on vacation
> half a planet away). In the good old days when MUMPS was the OS and
> expanding the databse meant building a new wing on the computer room
> to add another disk to the PDP-11 it was easy. Now I don't have a
> clue.
>
> I've searched the utilities for terms like "expan" and "alloca" but
> couldn't spot anything that might be what I am after.
>
> Can anyone help? Is this done from within MUMPS or have I been on a
> wild goose chase and it requires someone with more UNIX knowledge than
> me?
Done within M, but before you expand the dataset, be sure you've got
enough space at the OS level. Allowing the DB to expand beyond the
filesystem allocation will potentially put you in a worse bind than
doing nothing...
