[ILUG] Disk utilisation oddity

[kevin lyda]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:58:37AM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> >second, perhaps the backups between the two systems create a lot of
> >temp files in the standby sysyem?  once allocated it doesn't seem like
> >space in dirs is reclaimed.
> No, it's not, but none of the directories here have ever been large -  
> they're all only one block (4096b).

well this is what i see:

    : kevin at ogunquit on pts/3 ; mkdir bob
    : ok ; : Sun 26 0:27 ; cd ~
    : kevin at ogunquit on pts/3 ; ls -ld bob
    drwxr-xr-x  2 kevin kevin 4096 2006-03-26 00:27 bob
    : ok ; : Sun 26 0:27 ; cd ~
    : kevin at ogunquit on pts/3 ; seq -f 'bob/%g' 1 2000|xargs touch
    : ok ; : Sun 26 0:28 ; cd ~
    : kevin at ogunquit on pts/3 ; ls -ld bob
    drwxr-xr-x  2 kevin kevin 24576 2006-03-26 00:28 bob
    : ok ; : Sun 26 0:28 ; cd ~
    : kevin at ogunquit on pts/3 ; seq -f 'bob/%g' 1 2000|xargs rm
    : ok ; : Sun 26 0:28 ; cd ~
    : kevin at ogunquit on pts/3 ; ls -ld bob
    drwxr-xr-x  2 kevin kevin 24576 2006-03-26 00:28 bob
    : ok ; : Sun 26 0:28 ; cd ~

kevin

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