[Wylug-help] Empty Directory is 1.2M

[Graham Whaley]

What happens is somebody unlinks a file but still have a reference to the inode (ie. still has it open in an application) ?  A classic manouver for a temporary file.
 Does anybody know who gets the space accounted?  Does it stay with the original directory, or get reparented somewhere ?

 Just a thought.

	Graham


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk
> [mailto:wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Dan Walker
> Sent: 26 April 2006 14:18
> To: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk
> Subject: [Wylug-help] Empty Directory is 1.2M
> 
> 
> here's a weird one:
> 
> $ ls -lha
> total 1.2M
> drwx------    2 vpopmail vchkpw 1.2M Apr 26 11:57 .
> drwx------  130 vpopmail vchkpw 8.0K Apr 26 14:08 ..
> 
> It's the 'cur' directory of a maildir - it was losing mail 
> and eventually I 
> moved the weirdly-sized directories away and made new ones. 
> We've tried 
> fscking the hard drive, and no change.
> 
> I don't mind admitting that it's a bit beyond my ken. It's an 
> ext3 filesystem 
> if that's any help.
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Dan 
> -- 
> Ninjas are more scared of you than
> you are of them.
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