Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:24:02 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | | Subject | Re: ext2 directory size bug (?) |
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Steven Van Acker wrote:
> It this is a known thing, please don't kill me... > Hmm, gonna try to follow the REPORTING-BUGS file here...
It is not a bug. Directory entries increase in size as allocation units are added to handle directory entries. Once allocated, they are not deallocated until the directory is removed.
This is actually a feature. The directory does not get truncated.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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