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No. &nbsp;I mean, as long as the space is still allocated to that log file, it's not free on the drive. &nbsp;In order to free it for the drive, you have to release it as being reserved (exclusively available) to the log file.
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No.  I mean, as long as the space is still allocated to that log file, it's not free on the drive.  In order to free it for the drive, you have to release it as being reserved (exclusively available) to the log file.

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Do you mean performing a shrink operation to release the free space to the disk.?
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Do you mean performing a shrink operation to release the free space to the disk.?

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Can we release the available free space on the transaction log file to disk drive without shrinking the log file.?
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Can we release the available free space on the transaction log file to disk drive without shrinking the log file.?

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