Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:50:05 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Shrinking ext3 directories |
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Hi,
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:08:28PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
> 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
Right. Shrinking directories is not implemented for ext2 or ext3 at the moment. However, I know that Daniel Phillips has been thinking about adding that for his HTree extensions which add fast directory indexing to ext2/3.
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