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Re: weird empty dir



> $ du -sh dir
> 5.2M    dir
> $ cd dir
> $ ls -altr
> total 5236
> drwxr-xr-x 6 user user 4096 2007-01-19 14:41 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 5345280 2007-12-01 11:12 .
[...]
> Weird or not?

This directory has probably contained a lot of files (more than 400000),
making it that big (space for file list is allocated when needed but not
freed when files are deleted).

regards,
strawks.

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