Huge directories

[Andy Pearman]

Can anyone help ?

I keep a check on the size of our news directories by issuing

    du      ( this is on an HP9000-350 running HP-UX6.0 )

This works fine except I get the message

    Huge directory < dir-name >--call administrator

Even after most of the files in these directories disappear
it still says "Huge directory".

Do I have to compress the directory in some way and if so
how do I go about doing this ??


Thank for any help you can give,

     Andy.
   
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Andy Pearman, Computer Dept, Philips Research Labs, Redhill, Surrey, England.