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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventor:
Ivan Bassov, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1727 (2019.01); G06F 16/2365 (2019.01);
Abstract
A method is used in managing truncation of files of file systems. A request is received to delete a portion of a file of a file system. The file system includes a plurality of files. Metadata of the file is evaluated for determining a number of file system blocks associated with the portion of the file that are available for de-allocation. Storage space associated with the file system blocks is reported as available storage space to a user of the file.