After truncating the BI files, you can remove the empty variable extent. If you attempt to remove an extent that is not empty, OpenEdge RDBMS will prevent you from doing it.

You use the PROSTRCT REMOVE utility to remove an extent from a storage area offline.

The command to remove an extent offline is:
prostrct remove db-name extent-token area-name

Where:

db-name

The name of the database.

extent-token

The name of an extent’s token. Use d for data extent.

area-name

The name of the storage area from which you want to remove an extent. If there are spaces in the area’s name, enclose the name in double quotes.

Assume you want to remove the variable extent from the Order area of the sports database offline. Enter:
prostrct remove sports d order