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From: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Use fsck to free the space used by dir?
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:19:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501BDDE5.8060005@gmail.com> (raw)

Dear all,

I read through the namei.c code recently, but didn't notice any code to
reduce the size of a dir file (append can increase its size though).

I wonder if I create large amount of files under dir A, then remove all
the sub items, do I need to run fsck to free the disk space used by the
dir file? 

Please help confirm or if I missed some points.


Regards,
Sheng-Hui

             reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03 14:19 Wang Sheng-Hui [this message]
2012-08-03 15:18 ` Use fsck to free the space used by dir? Eric Sandeen
2012-08-03 17:57   ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-08-04  4:25     ` Wang Sheng-Hui

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