Once upon a time, Corey Kovacs <[email protected]> said: > Kevin, thanks for the explanation. This coincides perfectly which what I am > seeing. > > Next question is, is there a way to clean up the TOC?
On ext* (and in fact, most Unix filesystems), directories never shrink. The only way to clean it up is to move everything remaining to a new directory and remove the old directory. E.g. something like: $ cp -al huge_directory foo && mv huge_directory old && mv foo huge_directory && rm -rf old As for the performance issue: are you really using ext2 and not ext3? Newer versions of ext3 use directory hashing to speed up large directory accesses (so that directory growth does not impact performance much). -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
