On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:35:36PM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote: > I just discovered two directories with the same number of files and the same > number of hard links but different size: > > What could be the reason for the different sizes? They confuse our backup > script. The reason is history. Like many Unix filesystems, ext3 doesn't garbage collect empty blocks in a directory. So if you create a lot of files in a directory, and then delete them all, the directory doesn't shrink in size. In practice this isn't a problem, so we've never bothered to fix it. Why should your backup script care? It really shouldn't.... - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
