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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Directories That Grow
Message-ID: <3161@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 18:35:46 GMT
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>In Unix, directories grow, but never shrink.

In some versions of UNIX, directories grow, but never shrink.

In some file systems in some other versions of UNIX, directories shrink
as well as grow.  The 4.3BSD file system will shrink directories; I
think SunOS 4.1 and S5R4's UFS file system include that.