[ROOT] Increasing ".root" file size

From: Malcolm Davidson (davidson@cesbio.cnes.fr)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 17:26:01 MEST


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

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