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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Directory entries won't shrink
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:01:58 +0200
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Hi folks,

How do I force the size of a directory to be recalculated?  I've got a
16MB directory that used to contain half a million files.  It now
contains only 64 files and should have a size of 512, but it hasn't
shrunk.

I'm using soft updates.  Any help wuld be appreciated.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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