filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Thu Oct 4 07:48:42 PDT 2007


Quoting Dennis Malen (Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:30:15 -0400):

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

But how long before running "df"?

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
[...]
>> 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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