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<p>This is more a curiosity question than a problem. Try this:</p>
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<pre><code>mkdir temp
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cd temp
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seq 1 30000 | xargs touch
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ls -lhd .
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find . -type f | xargs rm
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ls -lhd .
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</code></pre>
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<p>Doing this on ext3 shows a 432k directory that stays that size even after the files are removed. It appears that ext3 practices lazy deletion, leaving the directory structures intact. It probably assumes that a directory that was large once will be large again, so it can save the allocation expense in the future.</p>
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