/REBUILD (default)
/NOREBUILD
Controls whether or not MOUNT performs a rebuild operation on a
disk volume.
If a disk volume is improperly dismounted (such as during a
system failure), you must rebuild it to recover any caching
limits that were enabled on the volume at the time of the
dismount. By default, MOUNT attempts the rebuild. For a
successful rebuild operation that includes reclaiming all of
the available free space, you must mount all of the volume set
members.
The rebuild may consume a considerable amount of time, depending
on the number of files on the volume and, if quotas are in use,
on the number of different file owners.
The following caches may have been in effect on the volume before
it was dismounted:
o Preallocated free space (EXTENT cache)
o Preallocated file numbers (FILE_ID cache)
o Disk quota usage caching (QUOTA cache)
If caching was in effect for preallocated free space or file
numbers, the rebuild time is directly proportional to the
greatest number of files that ever existed on the volume at
one time. If disk quota caching was in effect, you can expect
additional time that is proportional to the square of the number
of entries in the disk quota file.
If none of these items were in effect, the rebuild is not
necessary and does not occur.
If you use the /NOREBUILD qualifier, devices can be returned to
active use immediately. You can then perform the rebuild later
with the DCL command SET VOLUME/REBUILD.
For information about how to rebuild the system disk, see the HP
OpenVMS System Manager's Manual.
Examples
In this example, the volume WORKDISK is mounted on NODE$DKA2.
Because the volume is found to have been improperly dismounted
and the /REBUILD qualifier is in effect, MOUNT displays a message
and proceeds to rebuild the volume.
$ MOUNT/REBUILD NODE$DKA2: WORKDISK
%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, WORKDISK mounted on _NODE$DKA2:
%MOUNT-I-REBUILD, volume was improperly dismounted; rebuild in
progress
In this example, the volume WORKDISK is found to have been
improperly dismounted, but because the /NOREBUILD qualifier is
specified, a rebuild is not performed. Instead, MOUNT displays a
message to inform you that the rebuild is needed, and proceeds to
make WORKDISK available for use as is. You can rebuild the volume
later with the DCL command SET VOLUME/REBUILD.
$ MOUNT/NOREBUILD NODE$DKA2: WORKDISK
%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, WORKDISK mounted on _NODE$DKA2:
%MOUNT-I-REBLDREQD, rebuild not performed; some free space
unavailable; diskquota usage stale