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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: imminent /boot problem.
From:       Samuel Sieb <samuel () sieb ! net>
Date:       2024-02-24 20:34:29
Message-ID: 5106786c-bcb8-483b-950e-374f7980176a () sieb ! net
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On 2/24/24 12:16, home user wrote:
> 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.

That directory is also special.  There might be consequences for 
recreating it.  I don't know if it's accessed by name or inode.
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