Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files

[Jeff Mohler]

The directory size grew to accomodate the metadata required to list
the files within it.

You cant shrink it.  You'll have to remove it and recreate it.

On 11/26/06, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller at infidyne.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Observe:
>
> hyperion# ls -la
> total 61634
> drwxr-xr-x  2 xxx yyy  63047168 Nov 18 21:33 .
> drwxr-xr-x  6 xxx yyy         512 Oct  8 16:39 ..
> hyperion# find .
> .
> hyperion#
>
> The one special circumstance is that the directory previously contained 1.7
> million small files, that are now deleted. This is on FreeBSD 6.1 with UFS2 +
> softupdates. No snapshots exist of the filesystem.
>
> 1.7 million files may be extreme, but I don't see why an empty directory would
> ever consume more than one inode?
>
> --
> / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB
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