[Gllug] large but emtpy directories

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Alain Williams wrote:
> Would it be worth finding a quiet time and take exim down for a couple of minutes
> to recreate the directories -- ie make them smaller again ? I think that this might
> make searching the directories quicker. Would I be wasting my time ?

It won't make it quicker, although it will free up the disk space.

If you can take the system down to single user mode, an e2fsck -D
might come in handy (you could tune2fs -o dir_index at the same time
and speed things up no end).

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