In the last episode (Feb 23), Robert Huff said:
> huff@>> dir /usr/lost+found/
> total 192
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 194048 Feb 23 13:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 512 Feb 23 03:38 ..
>
> Now I understand the 't' in the permissions ... sort of.
> a) does this mean the reported directory size will never
> shrink?
> b) is that the actual blocks in use, or an artifact?
> c) is is safe to delete and recreate the directory?
A directory is only truncated on the first file create after a delete;
this optimizes the common rm -rf case. Touch a dummy file in there and
check the size again.
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Dan Nelson
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