Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:48:26 -0500 (EST) | From | "Simon's Mailing List Account" <> | Subject | Re: WEIRD ext2fs dir size BUG? |
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On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Ext2fs, like most Unix filesystems, doesn't shrink the size of the > directory after files have been deleted. Usually, this isn't a > problem. If it is, you can always rmdir and mkdir the directory to > reclaim the extra blocks.
It would be nice, especially for a news server running INN (hmm... this seems to be a pretty good pathological worst case lately), to shrink the directory, say, if the contents warrant a significantly smaller directory. This would keep the number of huge (and slow) directories down, considering that a lot of groups get occasional very large floods.
Simon Karpen slk@shodor.org Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation
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