At 06:14 PM 5/22/97 EDT, you wrote:
>I use ADSM to report on drive capacity (OS/2 Lan Servers are the
>clients.  Clients with large hard drives report incorrect capacity,
>so I just hard-code the correct capacity into the report.  The
>%UTIL is/was always correct though, and could be used against the
>original drive capacity number to get actual utilization.  For
>instance, if a 6 GB drive is reported as 2 GB, %166 used, I assume
>the actual bytes used is 2GB* 166% = 3.32 GB.  But now I've noticed
>one one of the clients the  reported capacity is 158 MB (actual is
>8 GB) and the %util is reported as 81%. By my previous theory (that
>%util is accurate if taken against the original reported capacity)
>This drive would only be 127 MB utilized.  And actually it's about
>90% utilized.  So can I just not trust the %utilized number either?
>So that even if I hard code the capacity, I can't get accurate numbers?
>Does anyone know?

What are you using to "report on drive capacity"?  Are you using
compression?   Is the values reported compressed or uncompressed?

Thoughts,
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