RE: deleting rows does not release filesystem space

2001-07-12 Thread Don Read
On 12-Jul-01 Sebastian Sanchez wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm having this problem when deleting many rows from a very large table, > after waiting for 3 hours or so mysql tells me that 20 mega rows have been > deleted, but > a df -k still says that no space has been freed. > Correct, the rows are *

deleting rows does not release filesystem space

2001-07-12 Thread Sebastian Sanchez
Hi all: I'm having this problem when deleting many rows from a very large table, after waiting for 3 hours or so mysql tells me that 20 mega rows have been deleted, but a df -k still says that no space has been freed. Thanks in advance, Sebastian. -