Re: Shrinking ext3 directories

[Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>]

Use a volume manager?(LVM or EVMS maybe.) You can grow and shrink their
volumes dynamically. EXT3 mus support ioctls for this, but if it does,
cause I've seen it doesn with EXT2, then you're good.

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:08, DervishD wrote:
>     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
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