Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:25:11 +0100 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Directory entries won't shrink Message-ID: <20011018162511.A63087@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <30988.1003417318@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:01:58PM %2B0200 References: <30988.1003417318@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:01:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Hi Sheldon, > 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've previously been led to be believe that the only way to do this is to recreate the directory, and that directories never shrink on their own. I'd be interested to hear if this is true from anyone who knows for sure though. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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