Hi Malcom, The holes in Root files are reused, and we never decrease the file size. Rene Brun Malcolm Davidson wrote: > > Dear Rooters, > > I'm a little confused concerning the way the objects within root files are > managed. I've just deleted a whole series of trees from a given file to > free some disk space, only to find out that the total file size before and > after remains the same. > > If this is the normal behaviour (e.g. because of these mysterious "free" > blocks I read about in the documentation) how do I reclaim this "lost" > space then ? > > Many thanks in advance for any help. > > Malcolm > > <>------------------------------------------------<> > Malcolm W. J. Davidson > CESBIO - UMR 5639 CNES-CNRS-UPS > 18 Avenue Edouard Belin > BP 2801 > F-31401 Toulouse Cedex 4 France > e-mail : davidson@cesbio.cnes.fr > phone (33)(0)5.61.55.85.84 > fax (33)(0)5.61.55.85.00 > <>------------------------------------------------<>
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