Re: Debian 8.1 ext4 directory sizes
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:19:10PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > tune2fs -l <block device>
>
> "You can tune a filesystem, but you cannot tune a fish."
Ah, oldies but goldies :-)
> Ok. I have features "dir_index" and "extent".
> But the directories don't shrink when being emptied.
> So proposed option 1 by Dan Ritter does not work for me.
I think those don't shrink directories.
> I still wonder for what a 3.8 GHz Xeon needs 2 seconds
> when scanning 7.5 MB of invalid directory entries in RAM.
This is pretty unfortunate, yes :-(
Seems you'll have to go with re-creating the dir. Or sneak in -D in the
regular file system check, if that's possible.
regards
- -- tomás
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