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From: dmdc@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM (Dennis M. Dooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Huge directory
Message-ID: <639@ncrsea.Seattle.NCR.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 90 00:11:09 GMT
References: <309@gandp> <206@bilpin.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmdc@ncrsea.UUCP (Dennis M. Dooley)
Organization: NCR Corp, Western Washington District
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In article <206@bilpin.UUCP> nick@bilpin.UUCP (nick) writes:
>In article <309@gandp>, rg@gandp (Dick Gill) writes:
>> A client's 32/650 is producing a "Huge directory" message when 
>> find is used to access a particular directory.  We moved some
>> files elsewhere, but still get the message; there are 1401 files
>> in the directory now.
>
>Ah - but of course directories never shrink. If you want to get rid of this
>message do the following:
>
>	mvdir <dir> <olddir>
>	mkdir <dir>
>	cp <olddir>/* <dir>
>> 
    This will work if there are no subdirectories.  An alternative approach
    would be:

	mv <dir> <dir.old>
	mkdir <dir>
	cd <dir.old>
	find . -print|cpio -pduvlm ../<dir>
	cd ..
	rm -rf <dir.old>

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Dennis M. Dooley     NCR Seattle Washington
ncrsea!dmdc