on 5-30-2009 2:25 PM Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk spake the following: > On 30. mai. 2009, at 00.03, Scott Silva wrote: > >> # e2fsck -D -f /dev/hdXY >> >> Note: This should work with both ext2 and ext3 filesystems. Depending >> on the >> size of your filesystem, this could take a long time. Perhaps you >> should go >> get some coffee... > > > AFAIK an "updatedb" (as in locate/slocate), or perhaps just a "find /" > should access all directories and make and index in each of them. That > way you won't need to umount the fs. > If you look at the quoted text, an fsck is required on pre-existing directories. They don't have the proper extents or index structures if created before directory_index is turned on. No other program is going to update the directory indexes. You can read those directories as many times as you want, it won't change it.
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