Directories are only shrunk when a file is created and the slack
directory space can be trivially truncated. This is to avoid useless
compaction during rm -rf-style activities of a directory that will
just be deleted anyway. Just create a dummy file with touch and the
directory will shrink
On 11/27/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the last episode (Nov 27), Peter Schuller said:
Observe:
hyperion# ls -la
total 61634
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx yyy 63047168 Nov 18 21:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 xxx yyy 512 Oct 8 16:39 ..
hyperion# find .
.
hyperion#
The one special
The directory size grew to accomodate the metadata required to list
the files within it.
You cant shrink it. You'll have to remove it and recreate it.
On 11/26/06, Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Observe:
hyperion# ls -la
total 61634
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx yyy 63047168 Nov 18
In the last episode (Nov 27), Peter Schuller said:
Observe:
hyperion# ls -la
total 61634
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx yyy 63047168 Nov 18 21:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 xxx yyy 512 Oct 8 16:39 ..
hyperion# find .
.
hyperion#
The one special circumstance is that the directory previously
