Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:21:18 +0100 | From | Padraig Brady <> | Subject | Re: Shrinking ext3 directories |
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DervishD wrote: > Hi all :)) > > All of you know that if you create a lot of files or directories > within a directory on ext2/3 and after that you remove them, the > blocks aren't freed (this is the reason behind the lost+found block > preallocation). If you want to 'shrink' the directory now that it > doesn't contain a lot of leafs, the only solution I know is creating > a new directory, move the remaining leafs to it, remove the > 'big-unshrinken' directory and after that renaming the new directory: > > $ mkdir new-dir > $ mv bigone/* new-dir/ > $ rmdir bigone > $ mv new-dir bigone > (Well, sort of)
The zipdir component of fslint does this (while maintaining permissions etc.).
> Any other way of doing the same without the mess?
Not at present I think. Perhaps we'll get it for free with the new htree directory indexing?
Padraig.
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