filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file

[Dennis Malen]

We waited about a half hour before we restarted the system.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: "pmahler" <pmahler at malen.com>; <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file


> Quoting Dennis Malen (Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:56:53 -0400):
> [...]
>> wasn't sure I had enough memory in our system, but it did. We then 
>> deleted
>> the original file. We used the "df" command to make sure the system
>> recognized the deleted file. It showed that the file system was the same
>> size. We had to resart the system in order for it to recognize the 
>> reduced
>> size after killing  this large file in filePro. Using the "df" command 
>> then
>> recognized the correct size.
> [...]
>
> How long did you wait after killing the file and running "df"?  I have 
> seen
> systems where removing a file doesn't immediately free up the disk space.
> Rather, for speed, it returns right away, with the freespace cleanup done
> in the background.  For large files (you did say this file had 7 million
> records), this delay may be noticeable.
>
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