[devtalk] table line deletions and diskspace

[joseph-harris]

Okay, nothing else seems to get anyone's blood flowing, 
let's see if this is interesting enough.

I have spent hours deleting lines from the _text table in 
the spammed wiki. In the end I batch cancelled but observed 
that I had most certainly removed lines with over 100MB of 
space. It seems that the diskspace used has not changed 
[after consultations with the host]!

For reasons which escape me there seems no way to actually 
get to the text entry for each line, the text column 
bringing up technical parameters. I had previously, as I 
thought, deleted many entries which were very long and may 
have contained material other than text [I did not check].

This is the MediaWiki script. I intend to simply take out 
the folder and replace it, but first I need to be sure how 
to remove excess and unwanted material to free disk space.

Does anyone know what might be happening - more accurately 
not happening - here?

Joseph




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