Disk and File Utilities (DFU) is a high performance utility
developed to perform routine maintenance and special purpose
operations on ODS-2 disk volumes, files and directories. The
functionality offered by DFU is not or partly available through
other DCL commands or VMS utilities. Minimal support for some ODS-5
file information is provided.
DFU has the following functions:
Command Description
DEFRAGMENT defragment individual files or an entire disk
DELETE delete files by file-id, and delete
directory(trees) fast
DIRECTORY COMPRESS, DUMP or RECOVER directories, search
directories for files with multiple versions,
alias files, or empty directories
INDEXF analyze, defragment truncate and extend
INDEXF.SYS
REPORT reports disk fragmentation
REVERSION reversions files back to starting at ;1
SEARCH search for files
SET set file attributes
UNDELETE recover deleted files
VERIFY analyze (and repair) the disk structure