* Eric Sandeen:

> So, as one example on ext4 - directories never shrink.

> # rm -f dir/*
> # ls -ld dir
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 69632 Feb 26 00:49 dir
>
> 69632 byte directory with no files in it, wheeee.

e2fsck -D will shrink such directories in an offline operation, I think.

Thanks,
Florian
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