In article <199909022338.TAA00666@pzero.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> you wrote:
>   The file system doesn't need it. It was designed to work for long periods.
>   About the only thing that may be needed is that directories that get used
> a lot, e.g. /var/spool/mqueue, etc. may need to be deleted and rebuilt to
> make them smaller, but that can be done with a shell script.

Wasn't this problem solved with the truncate(2) system call?


 - Hubert

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