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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: imminent /boot problem.
From:       Jon LaBadie <jonfu () jgcomp ! com>
Date:       2024-02-23 21:34:31
Message-ID: ZdkPZ7l-MJSHzn4h () cyber ! jgcomp ! com
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:19:51PM -0700, home user wrote:
> On 2/23/24 5:44 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM home user <mattisonw@comcast.net \
> > <mailto:mattisonw@comcast.net>> wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > Is there anything in your /boot/lost+found?
> 
> /boot/lost+found/:
> total 20
> drwx------. 2 root root 12288 Mar 17  2013 .
> dr-xr-xr-x. 6 root root  5120 Feb 22 20:21 ..
> -bash.12[boot]:
> 
> But what is odd is the ls -l output for /boot/lost+found/ itself.  Why is an empty \
> directory taking up 12288 bytes?  Other directories that are not empty are only \
> taking up 1024 bytes.

Directories expand in size when a lot of directory entries exist.
They do not shrink when those entries are removed.

You can manually shrink it by rmdir the L&F directory then recreate it.  

But do you really care about 11K bytes?

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jonfu@jgcomp.com
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