Boy is it hard to send a reply that makes sense when there
is a mixture of unedited top and bottom postings :(


On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:12:35PM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> 
> >>> Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> 06/18/04 12:43PM >>>
> KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> 
> > I don't know why the 33G of
> > holding disk space doesn't seem like enough or isn't getting used.
> > I'll reverse the order of holding disk hd1, which is only 8G, with
> > hd2, 33G, so maybe it'll use the larger one first.
> 
> Any other parameters in the config for holding disk that could
> affect the use of it?
> 
> Paul, thanks for your thoughts. I don't think so. The whole amanda.conf 
> concerning the holding disks is:
> holdingdisk hd1 {
>     comment "main holding disk"
>     directory "/var/amanda"     # where the holding disk is
>     use -0Mb            # how much space can we use on it. Use everything.
>     chunksize 1Gb       # size of chunk if you want big dump to be
> 
>     }
> holdingdisk hd2 {
>     directory "/dumps2/amanda"
>    use -0 Mb
>     }
> reserve 50 # percent
> 
...
> 
> Can you think of something I'm overlooking?


Just a wierd, unlikely, possibility.

The amanda man page says for the "use" parameter

  - a positive number means use only that amount
  - a zero means use all available
  - a negative number means use all EXCEPT that amount

You use parameter fits none of these exactly in that you have
a negative zero.  Is it possible the zero is being interpreted
as "all" and the negative as "except"?


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