> Ext2fs, like most Unix filesystems, doesn't shrink the size of the
> directory after files have been deleted. Usually, this isn't a
> problem. If it is, you can always rmdir and mkdir the directory to
> reclaim the extra blocks.
It would be nice, especially for a news server running INN
(hmm... this seems to be a pretty good pathological worst
case lately), to shrink the directory, say, if the contents
warrant a significantly smaller directory. This would keep
the number of huge (and slow) directories down, considering that
a lot of groups get occasional very large floods.
Simon Karpen slk@shodor.org
Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage
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