Patent ID: 9164885
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A storage control device comprising: a memory configured to store a program; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a process based on the program, the process including: writing additional data into an area reserved for allocation in a physical disk including a recording area into which data is written, the area reserved for allocation being allocated so as to write thereinto the additional data, detecting a volume of the data and the additional data written into the physical disk as a used amount of the physical disk, calculating an amount of increase or decrease in a current used amount of the physical disk with respect to the used amount of the physical disk previously detected by the detecting, calculating a changed volume, used for changing a volume of the area reserved for allocation, on the basis of a ratio between the amount of increase or decrease in the used amount of the physical disk and a volume of the area reserved for allocation, and allocating the area reserved for allocation to the physical disk so that the area reserved for allocation corresponding to the calculated changed volume is continued in the physical disk.