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    From Bob Jones@1:343/41 to Alan Hess on Monday, December 31, 2001 00:22:16
    I'm using Binkley PE 403 for os/2. I've got bink/max
    on a 3 gig partition. I've been getting error messages
    from Binkley saying "Out of disk space" when a node
    tries to send me netmail. I'm nowhere near out of disk
    space - the partition is almost empty. What gives, and
    how do I fix it? *adh*

    Alan:

    This is a problem with binkley interpreting the returned free space value as a signed int. If you eat up space on the drive so you have just under 2Gb free, that should take care of the problem. I just copy files into a "delete-me" type subdirectory off the root to accomplish this. I've heard of a program called space hog that can also do the job.

    For technical info, the results returned by the free disk space check under OS/2 is an unsigned int. It wraps at 4Gb. So, when you get a larger drive / partition, you'll hit the bug when you have 2Gb to 4Gb free, 6Gb to 8Gb free, etc.

    Take care....

    Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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  • From Jerry Schwartz@1:142/928 to Alan Hess on Monday, December 31, 2001 02:47:15
    Hello, Alan...

    Dec 30, 2001 at 14:46, Alan Hess wrote to all:

    I'm using Binkley PE 403 for os/2. I've got bink/max on a 3 gig partition. I've been getting error messages from Binkley saying "Out
    of disk space" when a node tries to send me netmail. I'm nowhere
    near out of disk space - the partition is almost empty. What gives,
    and how do I fix it? *adh*

    Bink (at least the older versions) can't handle more than 2gb of free space on a partition.

    Regards,

    Jerry Schwartz

    mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
    http://www.writebynight.com

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  • From Alan Hess@1:261/1000 to all on Sunday, December 30, 2001 06:46:17
    I'm using Binkley PE 403 for os/2. I've got bink/max on a 3 gig partition. I've been getting error messages from Binkley saying "Out of disk space" when a
    node tries to send me netmail. I'm nowhere near out of disk space - the partition is almost empty. What gives, and how do I fix it? *adh*

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  • From George Vandervort@1:1/0 to Alan Hess on Monday, December 31, 2001 06:23:00
    Hello Alan!

    Sunday December 30 2001 14:46, Alan Hess wrote to all:

    I'm using Binkley PE 403 for os/2. I've got bink/max on a 3 gig partition. I've been getting error messages from Binkley saying "Out
    of disk space" when a node tries to send me netmail. I'm nowhere near
    out of disk space - the partition is almost empty. What gives, and
    how do I fix it? *adh*

    -+- Msged/2 TE 05
    + Origin: Nerve Center - Source of the SPINAL_INJURY echo!
    (1:261/1000)

    As I recall, on Binkley ver. 2.60 any Free Space larger than 2 Gig's, was interpreted as a "Negative number" causing Binkley to assume that you were out of drive space, the Fix for Hard drives with more than 2 Gig's of drive space, was: 1.) to create a seperate Partician of 2 Gig's or less, for Binkley to run on, or 2.) fill up the drive that Binkley was on with files, untill the Free Space was less than 2 Gig's.. :-))


    Regards,
    George Vandervort

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:115/776 to Bob Jones on Thursday, January 03, 2002 14:13:46
    Hello, Bob.

    31 Dec 01 08:22, Bob Jones wrote to Alan Hess:

    For technical info, the results returned by the free disk space check under OS/2 is an unsigned int. It wraps at 4Gb. So, when you get a larger drive / partition, you'll hit the bug when you have 2Gb to 4Gb free, 6Gb to 8Gb free, etc.

    Which is why Binkley and Squish reside on their own 2 GB partition. Ne'er a problem. <G>

    Later,
    Sean

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