partition space is little reducing after deleting dir.

mazhar07 · 05-29-2011, 05:07 AM

Hi frnds,

There is one directory in /oracle partition in test server which i use to delete that dir after copying in the same location with diff file/dir name. Like this i did so many times.
evrytime i m deleting but the /oracle partition space is reducing by 1.5 or 2gb after deleting dirs of 80gb.
Directory size is 80GB and partition size 400GB.
plz let me knw with steps, is it requires to do De-fragmentation?

Regards
-MAZHAR

TobiSGD · 05-29-2011, 05:42 AM

Even if it would be necessary to defragment that partition it would not give you more space. Tha main reason for a behavior like yours is that files in that directory are opened by a process. The fastes solution would be to reboot or to restart the processes that have files open in that directory.