you should change directories then do the find from the current
directory like so
cd $dirname
find . | cpio -pam $dirname.new_version
however I don't think it is necessary to shrink all the directories on
the system. besides there are other issue with this little hack
Kevin K. Sochacki wrote:
>
> Clifford Wolf wrote:
> >
>
> > On does not need to modify fsck to "shrink" directories at boot time -
> > this shell script should do the job (i've not tested it now and it's not
> > perfect - but it shows the basic idea):
> >
> > find / -type d -fstype ext2 |
> > while read dirname
> > do
> > mkdir $dirname.new_version
> > mv $dirname/* $dirname.new_version/
>
> if you replace the first 'mv' command with the follow command
> permissions and time stamps will be preserved.
> find $dirname/ | cpio -pam $dirname.new_version/
>
> > rmdir $dirname
> > mv $dirname.new_version $dirname
> > done
> >
> > One of the problems with this script is that it does not preserve the
> > permissions of the directories. The fact that it creates new directories
> > with new inode numbers shouldn't be a problem since it is started at boot
> > time.
> >
> > It is easier to preserve the permissions useing a little C-Programm.
> >
> > - clifford
> >
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