Directory size is very high instead of 4kB expected size
Issue
A large amount of files was created and then deleted in a directory.
After the deletion, the directory size is very high.
For example:
$ ls -ld .
dr-xr-x---. 7 root root 1114112 Jul 4 13:39 .
^^^^^^^
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- ext3
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