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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: imminent /boot problem.
From:       home user <mattisonw () comcast ! net>
Date:       2024-02-24 21:02:34
Message-ID: 223e176b-1556-491c-a4c0-003f059cd7a5 () comcast ! net
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On 2/24/24 1:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> 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.

That's the first I've ever heard of that!  I learn something new once in a while.
Thank-you.
I'm definitely leaving it.

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