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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: Directory entries won't shrink
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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

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