Date: 1 Apr 1997 23:00:06 +0200
From: sec@42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl)
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ftruncate("directory")...
Message-ID: <slrn5k2tqm.3q8.sec@matrix.42.org>
References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970331000021.199S-100000@thelab.hub.org> <199703311832.LAA09800@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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I didn't get the original article, so i reply to this one instead :) > > Has anyone written (is it possible?) a utility that can > > 'truncate' a directory? > > > > Essentially, what I'm looking at is something that would > > open a directory, re-org the entries in it so that only the 'good' > > entries are at the head of the file, and then truncate it... > > > > Not sure if this is actually possible, but am going to play > > with it here...but if its already been done, all the better... :) Hmm, i always solved this problem by #!/bin/sh mkdir new_dir cd old_dir mv * ../new_dir cd .. rmdir old_dir mv new_dir old_dir okay, its not the nicest solution, but it works perfectly for me :) > For > the amount of fragmentation necessary to achieve utility from this > recovery, you would need to have set up a scenario terribly different > from standard utilization patterns. Perhaps the lmbench directory > create/delete test? I sometimes create a whole bunch of files (with a script) in a directory, and just want to keep an very few of them - so the directory is actually much bigger than it needs to be :) CU, Sec -- Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt, Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling Error 0: No error
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