question about reported directory size

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Huff
huff@ dir /usr/lost+found/ total 192 drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 194048 Feb 23 13:01 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 Feb 23 03:38 .. Now I understand the 't' in the permissions ... sort of. a) does this mean the reported directory size will never shrink?

Re: question about reported directory size

2005-02-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 23), Robert Huff said: huff@ dir /usr/lost+found/ total 192 drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 194048 Feb 23 13:01 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 Feb 23 03:38 .. Now I understand the 't' in the permissions ... sort of. a) does this mean the reported

Re: question about reported directory size

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Huff
Dan Nelson writes: A directory is only truncated on the first file create after a delete; this optimizes the common rm -rf case. Touch a dummy file in there and check the size again. Who was that masked man? I don't know, but he left this silver bullet. Thanks.