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Subject: Re: imminent /boot problem.
From: home user <mattisonw () comcast ! net>
Date: 2024-02-24 20:16:59
Message-ID: 1fd22b5f-da0f-4dbb-87a5-de42cced4665 () comcast ! net
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On 2/23/24 2:34 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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?
>
Something I did not know. Thank-you.
You're right, it's only 11K. Relative to the original problem, not significant.
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