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Subject: Re: Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files
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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.

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