Hi Malcom, I agree with your point that it would be useful to have a cleanup mechanism. As I thought this was not a top priority, I never implemented it ::) Rene Malcolm Davidson wrote: > > Hello again, > > Thanks for the quick answer Rene. I can understand some of the reasons for > this feature, however, I'm suprised that some kind of cleanup mechanism > that reclaims unused disk space doesn't exist in ROOT. I'm thinking of one > of these maintenance programs that only get's used every-so-often. > > I think it would be quite useful esp. since every so often a mistake such > as writing much larger trees than expected will irreversibly increase file > size and force me to recopy what I need into a new ROOT file before > deleting the old. > > More comments anyone ? > > Malcolm > > At 15:34 15/05/01 +0000, Rene Brun wrote: > >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 > > > <>------------------------------------------------<> > > <>------------------------------------------------<> > 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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