filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file

[John Esak]

Do you have a battery backed-up scsi controller? Just curious. Does it have
a huge amount of cache on the controller like 128MB or 256MB or more?

Did you try a "sync" command at the O/S level and then do another "df"?
This sounds like an O/S problem and not an FP problem.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> Of Dennis Malen
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:30 AM
> To: Kenneth Brody
> Cc: pmahler; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file
> 
> 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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