On 11/27/06, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the last episode (Nov 27), Peter Schuller said:
> Observe:
>
> hyperion# ls -la
> total 61634
> drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx yyy 63047168 Nov 18 21:33 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 xxx yyy 512 Oct 8 16:39 ..
> hyperion# find .
> .
> hyperion#
>
> The one s
> 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
In the last episode (Nov 27), Peter Schuller said:
> Observe:
>
> hyperion# ls -la
> total 61634
> drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx yyy 63047168 Nov 18 21:33 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 xxx yyy 512 Oct 8 16:39 ..
> hyperion# find .
> .
> hyperion#
>
> The one special circumstance is that the directory previou
The directory size grew to accomodate the metadata required to list
the files within it.
You cant shrink it. You'll have to remove it and recreate it.
On 11/26/06, Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
Observe:
hyperion# ls -la
total 61634
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx yyy 63047168 Nov 18 21
Hello,
Observe:
hyperion# ls -la
total 61634
drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx yyy 63047168 Nov 18 21:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 xxx yyy 512 Oct 8 16:39 ..
hyperion# find .
.
hyperion#
The one special circumstance is that the directory previously contained 1.7
million small files, that are now deleted. Thi
