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From: richl@penguin.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: truncating root directory of a file system
Message-ID: <1973@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 11:42:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 11:42:12 1986
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Reply-To: richl@penguin.uss.tek.com (Rick Lindsley)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <511@cdx39.UUCP> jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
> Hey, here's a good puzzle for a Unix file-system wizard.
> You know how some directories (like /usr/spool/uucp) can
> get really huge, and then, even if most of the files go
> away, the directory stays large, giving poor performance
> for some applications.

I know this doesn't solve it for many sites, but I should add that
4.3 will truncate directories for you automatically. Each time an
entry is added to a directory, excess space is removed. So if a
directory grows huge, and you then remove everything from it, it
is still huge. But when you next add something, the directory will
shrink.

Rick Lindsley