[Info-vax] VMS Enhancement request: setfilenomove.com

[John E. Malmberg]

On 7/10/2019 10:09 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 7/10/2019 9:17 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>> Can setfilenomove.com be enhanced so that it checks the nomove
>> attribute so that it can just tell you if the running system disk is
>> ok to run a degragmenter on?
>   
> Why?  What's the harm in running it on a disk where it's been run
> already?
The end user needs a useful report on the running system disk, not a 
complaint that it can not set the nomove attributes on files that are open.

It should only complain about the open files if the nomove attribute is 
not set.

That way I can easily tell if I need to boot from the DVD image to 
re-run the procedure to fix things.

> It's not like it takes a long time, and the only way to
> ensure that it's been run would be to check each file of interest for
> the nomove attribute, and declaring the device safe for a defragmenter
> if and only if each file of interest has been set /NOMOVE.

It does not do that.  It only tries to set the /nomove attribute and 
complains about the files that it can not set.

Which means that you have do a dir/full on each file that it complains 
about.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work