Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:08:28 +0200 | Subject | Shrinking ext3 directories | From | DervishD <> |
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Hi all :))
All of you know that if you create a lot of files or directories within a directory on ext2/3 and after that you remove them, the blocks aren't freed (this is the reason behind the lost+found block preallocation). If you want to 'shrink' the directory now that it doesn't contain a lot of leafs, the only solution I know is creating a new directory, move the remaining leafs to it, remove the 'big-unshrinken' directory and after that renaming the new directory:
$ mkdir new-dir $ mv bigone/* new-dir/ $ rmdir bigone $ mv new-dir bigone (Well, sort of)
Any other way of doing the same without the mess?
Thanks a lot :) Raúl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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