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Configuring Reported Disk Space

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Maximum disk space reported can be controlled by configuring the maxdiskspacereported parameter in the hpparms section of lanman.ini file. Prior to the addition of this parameter, when a disk on an Advanced Server 9000 machine had total disk space larger than 2 GB, AS/U reported to client machines that the total disk was 0 bytes and there were 0 bytes free. The parameter maxdiskspacereported has the default value of 0; a maximum value of 4194303 (in KBytes). By setting the parameter maxdiskspacereported to a value between 0 and 4194303, you instruct Advanced Server/9000 to report a maximum free disk of that value even though the actual free disk space could be larger. Advanced Server/9000 may report the disk space when a DOS, Windows 95,a Windows NT Workstation, or Windows for Workgroups client does a dir command in a shared directory. Example: suppose there is a directory on a UNIX system that has 937418 KB free disk space. Consider the following cases:

  1. Set the parameter maxdiskspacereported to a value between 0 and 4194303.

    - Set the parameter maxdiskspacereported to 500000. Restart AS/U.

    - Share a directory.

    - From a Window NT Workstation, access the shared directory, then do a dir command.

  2. The output from the dir command will show only 500000 KB of free disk space while there is actually 937418 KB of free disk space.

  3. Set the parameter maxdiskspacereported to 0 (default value).

    - Set the parameter maxdiskspacereported to 0. Restart AS/U.

    - From a DOS client, access the shared directory, then do a dir command.

    The output from the dir command will show 937418 KB of free disk space.

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