> If a directory is created and filled with, say, 500 files, it will
> grow to 6K in size. It will retain this size when all files in it are
> unlinked.
>
> Does it ever shrink in size or will it retain it's 6 blocks until
> it's unlinked? If so, is this just another form of preallocation, in
> case we would that many files again in the same directory?
Ext2 directories never shrink. This is mainly because of
race conditions and coding difficulty.
If a directory size really bothers you, you must have been
doing something _very_ strange anyway :)
Rik.
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