Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:10:28 +0200 | From | Pauline Middelink <> | Subject | Re: why is the size of a directory always 1024b ? |
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On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 02:56:59PM +0530, MURALI N wrote: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 May 4 21:35 lost+found > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 May 5 12:12 mnt > dr-xr-xr-x 33 root root 0 Jun 23 19:06 proc > > "lost+found" > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 May 4 21:35 . > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 May 28 16:40 .. > > If the present scheme allocates 13 * 1024 bytes for just "." and "..", I > feel it is time to rethink the directory handling.
Nono, lost+found is /delibertly/ 12K. The reason is that you can't (easely) enlarge a directory on a disk which is beeing recovered. By making lost+found at least 12K we have enough room for making names for lost files
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