🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Sep25.104629.16194@infocomm.com>, mark@infocomm.com writes:
> In article <2180229E_00057EE8.009612482C133540$6_1@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG>, SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK writes:
>> After you have done your backup/restore, it is a good idea to make sure
>> that the header file is extended before the disk gets fragmented again.
>> There are two ways to do this. The slow safe way is to CREATE a large number of
>> empty files (as many as you want there to be space for, up to a maximum
>> of ^50,000), then delete them again. The quick but unsupported way is to use
>> the $EXTEND service on INDEXF.SYS to force it to add as many more headers
>> as you like. After you do this, run ANALYZE/DISK. It will report that the
>> backup index file header is bad -- it's no longer a faithful copy of the
>> main one. ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR fixed this.
>> 

An idle speculation, how about $CREATEing a file with FID=80000 or so? This
should cause the XQP to do the extend.
~Paul