At 09:14 PM 3/12/2007, Larry Smith wrote:

Please remember that directories never shrink in Linux/Unix natively.  So if
there were _ever_ in the past, lots of files in that directory, the size will
remain larger - even once the files have been removed.

Thanks...that's not something I could have remembered...since I didn't know it....but now I do...and it explains the big numbers, as there had been some junk I stored in tmp.

Thom
_______________________________________________
Cobaltfacts site list
[email protected]
http://list.cobaltfacts.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/cobaltfacts

Reply via email to