Re: Beginner question #57 8-)

[Weiqi Gao <weiqigao@networkusa.net>]

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 22:08, Charlie Brune wrote:
> Okay... I put several thousand files in a directory.  Then I deleted them.
> 
> However, when I do an "ls -l" on the directory name, the size portion of
> the display STILL shows the directory as being reeeeeeeeally big.  Even
> though it's empty.
> 
> So here's my question.  Is there some sort of magic Linux process that
> will occasionally scan my file system and clean it up ----- and, in this
> case, make the size of my directory small again?

rmdir <dirname>; mkdir <dirname>

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao@networkusa.net


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