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My colleague walked over the other day, showed me a piece of paper,
and said, "Can you explain this?".

What he showed me was the end of an NDIR listing done for all the
subdirectories on one of our volumes, which is a Seagate Barracuda
(4.3GB) drive.

The last two lines of the listing are this:

3,767,801,107 total bytes in     7663 files 
2,172,874,752 total bytes in 530847 blocks

The bytes number associated with the number of files matches VOLINFO,
etc.

The bytes number for blocks is much less and makes no sense, given
that the number of bytes for the blocks is always greater than the
number for the files (slack bytes, etc.).

I searched http://www.dejanews.com to see if others have had this
problem.  A couple hits came up, both of them regarding sparse files.
We don't have sparse files here - I have double-checked using the
COUNT command of ARCserve, which I have previously used to find a
sparse file.  

I have since come across something documented at
http://netwire.novell.com (dcoument id 21162) which states a "bug"
with NDIR and large drives.  The way to get the correct info is to use
the NDIR from NetWare 4.x.

This is a very minor issue, but can we use the NDIR from NetWare 4.x
successfully (without corrupting anything)?  Being overly-cautious and
slightly paranoid?  Guilty as charged.  But I'm wondering if others
had seen this problem and used the NDIR from NetWare 4.x (which the
document says is much bigger than the old one).  Thanks for any help.
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Tom Kustner                   Emjay Corporation    
System/LAN Administrator      725 W. Glendale Ave.
Email: emjay@execpc.com       Glendale, WI  53209-6509  USA
Phone: (414) 961-0650         
Fax #: (414) 961-1649         Any opinions are mine and not Emjay's.