ext4_ind_remove_space(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to ext4_ind_remove_space(9) from the Kernel API Manual — the name is literally the whole mood: ext4_ind_remove_space — remove space from the range. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the vibe check is a function signature, no cap:

int ext4_ind_remove_space (handle_t *handle , struct inode *inode ,
       ext4_lblk_t start , ext4_lblk_t end );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• handle — the JBD handle for this transaction, periodt.
• inode — the inode we are dealing with.
• start — First block to remove.
• end — One block after the last block to remove (exclusive).

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea: it frees the blocks in the defined range, and end is the exclusive endpoint of range — like, it's the one after the last block to remove, not included. ✨

This is used by ext4_punch_hole. that's the whole plot, fr fr.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the kernel file is ./fs/ext4/indirect.c, and the related-call squad is giving main character energy:

• ext4_block_to_path(9)
• ext4_get_branch(9)
• ext4_find_near(9)
• ext4_find_goal(9)
• ext4_blks_to_allocate(9)
• ext4_alloc_branch(9)
• ext4_splice_branch(9)
• ext4_find_shared(9)
• ext4_free_data(9)
• ext4_free_branches(9)

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mwah 💖 — cute little sign-off from the source/version corner: ./fs/ext4, dated October 2026, for ext4_ind_remove_space(9). that's the footer info, bestie, not me copying the exact line 🙈✨