From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 1 17:38:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0537016A418 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:38:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9DA513C4BC for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:38:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so2357206nzf for ; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:38:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Lkf+A+zzIVE4baM1oqOugvavpxGTXulDk65FyROQG3U=; b=GxbOJNcT1FEBc2MGDxQZ5+l8hYq6Tml2JF1yBGS0ctGzSyT2BBVO37wvq8NvLVTQWFCm88/1nf0NxUbKrKlOxh0Gx8NANh2GqAVT6euUAolvjqC7DtLNfX4zJ1Tetu0oz0JC0Rzpaw4iq+8SNWDPEQF4oyEfIC04U8McXXRSSnw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DNNEokPZRIHp9wR5VIpqhBjvUQZ09o+inqnvRgHs1CdQRblLLIKm6Cj18CR4j+I7KX5qO9P0g2afXURbJM0DBPFZ080NCof5BFNsg8uhS8Ywf1/E2XnX9bRnPKjQUvA7WYoNglYFQgI5ifOJHl+trT+JNMlWsz44HlbaYha9Q+A= Received: by 10.65.205.16 with SMTP id h16mr6185539qbq.1191260302105; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.210.14 with HTTP; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64c038660710011038o4152576bm32d5cb6983e62115@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:38:22 -0600 From: Modulok To: "Lowell Gilbert" In-Reply-To: <44myv5h46s.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <64c038660709281127j1df4835bxcbfe4495600fd6d7@mail.gmail.com> <20070928201528.GB62033@dan.emsphone.com> <64c038660709290800q331e15bel26273dc14587ce0e@mail.gmail.com> <44myv5h46s.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File size discrepancies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:38:24 -0000 Thanks for all the great feedback, guys. It helped. -Modulok- On 9/29/07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Modulok writes: > > > So, the size of a directory itself can differ when the contents is > > identical? This is news to me. > > If you delete files from a directory, the storage used for the > directory entries is not freed. >