Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > tune2fs -l <block device>
"You can tune a filesystem, but you cannot tune a fish." It says: tune2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) ... Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: user_xattr acl ... Steve McIntyre wrote: > tack:~$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/dm-1 | grep features /dev/dm-1 ? Google ... man dmsetup ... gulp. Ok. I have features "dir_index" and "extent". But the directories don't shrink when being emptied. So proposed option 1 by Dan Ritter does not work for me. I still wonder for what a 3.8 GHz Xeon needs 2 seconds when scanning 7.5 MB of invalid directory entries in RAM. Have a nice day :) Thomas