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Stanley Mungai
Stanley Mungai

Reputation: 4150

Refresh directory Size in Linux

I have delete all files older than two days from my directories using:

find . -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

the files got deleted fine but the size of the directories has not changed is there anything I can do to refresh the size? I have tries pwd but nothing. enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 788

Answers (1)

loshad vtapkah
loshad vtapkah

Reputation: 459

Have you checked lsof? If some application uses files they are not actually deleted till they close them. But I am not sure that this affects dir size.

Upvotes: 1

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