Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Dec 1996 12:18:07 GMT | Subject | Re: security implications (was Re: Proposal: restrict link(2)) | From | (Ray Auchterlounie) |
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.961217102005.23370A-100000@dross> Dave Cole <dave@edipost.auspost.com.au> wrote: [...] >It turns out that Distiller was creating a file in /tmp for every page >processed. We had about 100,000 zero length files in /tmp. Under SunOS, >directories never shrink, so we had to remake the file system to get back >normal performance. [...] >I have not bothered to check if ext2fs shrinks directories, maybe this >"technique" would work on Linux too.
Unless it's been changed recently, ext2fs doesn't shrink directories.
I guess this is one reason for "files" quotas :)
You can recover the space by deleting the directory (probably not on SunOS if /tmp is the root of tmpfs).
ray
-- Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> "Forty Two! Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
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