Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:56:56 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Directory entries won't shrink Message-ID: <20011018105656.B97943@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <61135.1003420361@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <20011018104520.A97943@dan.emsphone.com> <61135.1003420361@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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In the last episode (Oct 18), Sheldon Hearn said: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:45:20 EST, Dan Nelson wrote: > > They will shrink, but it will only shrink when a file is added to the > > directory, and it will only truncate the directory (so if one of your > > 64 files is in the last block of the directory, it'll never shrink). > > You can sort of work around this by renaming each file, which will move > > it to the first open slot in the directory. > > Okay, so if this is a split spool directory for an MTA, I'm screwed. :-) Just wait for the files to get delivered (or bounce) and the directory will shrink. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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