From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 11:00:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B3C16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 11:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bimmer.dtmpower.net (bimmer.dtmpower.net [66.250.68.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E0443D2D for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 11:00:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jd@ods.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bimmer.dtmpower.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5E553B80; Tue, 25 May 2004 13:54:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bimmer.dtmpower.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bimmer.dtmpower.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54236-08; Tue, 25 May 2004 13:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [66.250.68.108] (unknown [66.250.68.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bimmer.dtmpower.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D91A853B68; Tue, 25 May 2004 13:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:01:29 -0400 From: Jason DiCioccio To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20040525154242.GL75036@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040525154242.GL75036@dan.emsphone.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.3 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dtmpower.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question regarding reported directory sizes. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:00:16 -0000 Thanks Dan.. However, this does not appear to be happening... I could of course create a new directory and move everything into it as was suggested earlier. However, this is more of a curiosity thing than anything.. I'm wondering if at any point the entry does become truncated, because it hasn't happened yet, even after the creation of files. The OS release is: 5.2-CURRENT from May 12th Thanks! Jason DiCioccio --On Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:42:42 -0500 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 25), Jason DiCioccio said: >> I know this question may seem silly.. However, here's my scenario. >> >> I have a very large directory (say, a mail spool) whose directory entry >> is approx 606K.. >> drwx------ 5 cyrus cyrus 606208 May 25 10:29 . >> Now.. That directory had a lot of files in it. However, after deleting >> all of the files in that directory, the directory entry's size stays >> the same. I realize this is fairly unimportant, however is there a way >> to 'garbage collect' that directory entry and all others like it? > > Create another file in the directory, and you'll see it shrink down. > The truncation code is in the file create codepath, not the delete one > (which means it's not constantly trying to shrink the directory as you > delete files). > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com