On Tuesday 08 Nov 2005 08:42, Timothy Wu wrote:

> another partition. So I manually removed the files. However, not much disk
> space was freed from the operations. I suspect what I removed were hard
> symlinks, but I wasn't quite sure. Why wasn't my disk space freed? How
> would I be able to free disk space? If it were symlinks where are the real

If the SQL engine has the file held open, the space is still in use, even if 
you remove the files.  Reload the SQL engine and the space should come back.
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