Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:43:51 +0100 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files Message-ID: <200611271943.52147.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> In-Reply-To: <20061127020422.GH29363@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200611270131.44366.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <20061127020422.GH29363@dan.emsphone.com>
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> Directories are only shrunk when a file is created and the slack > directory space can be trivially truncated. This is to avoid useless > compaction during "rm -rf"-style activities of a directory that will > just be deleted anyway. Just create a dummy file with "touch" and the > directory will shrink down to 1 block. You can then remove the file. Thanks, that explaints it. And it did work. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org
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