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Correcting Space Problems Because of the way data is written to disks, files become fragmented, disk space is not fully utilized, and disks may appear to be filled up even when they are not. One solution to the problem is to store low priority spoolfiles and spoolfiles retained for permanent storage onto tapes, thus freeing space on the disks. This section describes the use of the DISCFREE utility to determine the amount of free space on a disk. Refer to the previous section for instructions on creating and loading spoolfiles to tape. DISCFREE provides two types of reports on disk space. One is the HISTOGRAM, which reports on the distribution of disk space in terms of blocks of contiguous sectors. The other is the ALLOCATION report, which describes the total amount of free space on the disk without regard to its distribution.