Re: ext2fs: do directories ever shrink?

Krzysztof G. Baranowski (kgb@szafa.knm.org.pl)
Sat, 11 Jul 1998 00:45:38 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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 :)
What about doing this in fsck ?

Kris

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