From: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Subject: Use fsck to free the space used by dir?
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:19:17 +0800
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Dear all,

I read through the namei.c code recently, but didn't notice any code to
reduce the size of a dir file (append can increase its size though).

I wonder if I create large amount of files under dir A, then remove all
the sub items, do I need to run fsck to free the disk space used by the
dir file? 

Please help confirm or if I missed some points.


Regards,
Sheng-Hui