filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file

[Dennis Malen]

We ran df a number of times throughout that half hour and did so again just 
before we restarted the system.

When the system was restarted DF correctly showed the size of the individual 
file systems.

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 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file


> 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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