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(a)comcast.net
<mailto:mattisonw@comcast.net>> wrote:
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>> Is there anything in your /boot/lost+found?
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> /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.