From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 18:04:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E14316A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:04:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E0643D3F for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:04:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-197-67.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.197.67] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #7) id 1D40sM-0002XF-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:04:42 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16924.50632.444541.28202@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:04:56 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" XEmacs Lucid Subject: question about reported directory size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:04:43 -0000 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? b) is that the actual blocks in use, or an artifact? c) is is safe to delete and recreate the directory? Robert Huff