> > I don't understand this; are you saying that files can shrink or not?
> > What on earth does the directory as a file fills up with anyway? [The
> > largest directory size I've seen is 40,000 blocks for a directory filled
> > up with images and then these images were deleted!) Clearly there is a
> > benefit of reclaiming this - any chance the fsck process can
> > automatically reclaim this on reboots?
>
> uups - a typo: a file can't shrink.
That's what I thought. ;o) Anyway, that's normally not necessary except
for big temporary directories. My system's file system tends to be
normally stable except for these occasions where I have to extract stuff
from large tar files :o)
Cheers,
Alex.
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