filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file

[Dennis Malen]

John,

I was not reporting it as a problem. I only reported that I could not rename 
a file using filepro. The DF is definitely not a filePro problem.

I did a work around and the DF was a result of the workaround.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: filePro Utility Menu - Rename a file


> 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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>> >
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