Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:28:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:28:36 -0400 Received: from 212.Red-80-35-44.pooles.rima-tde.net ([80.35.44.212]:31872 "EHLO DervishD.pleyades.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:28:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:34:15 +0200 Organization: Pleyades To: austin@digitalroadkill.net, raul@pleyades.net Subject: Re: Shrinking ext3 directories Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D0F8B37.mailH8O114KDC@viadomus.com> References: <3D0F5AFC.mailGSE111D9L@viadomus.com> <1024416626.7681.39.camel@UberGeek> In-Reply-To: <1024416626.7681.39.camel@UberGeek> User-Agent: nail 9.31 6/18/02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: DervishD Reply-To: DervishD X-Mailer: DervishD TWiSTiNG Mailer Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 16 Hi Austin :) >Use a volume manager?(LVM or EVMS maybe.) You can grow and shrink >their volumes dynamically. EXT3 mus support ioctls for this, but if >it does, cause I've seen it doesn with EXT2, then you're good. I'm afraid I explained myself bad O:) I didn't refer to directory contents, but to the metadata, or the blocks of the directory itself. Thanks anyway :)) Ra?l - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/