Re: [Sheflug] listing sizes of directories..

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     Barrie>  How do I list the size of a directory (instead of getting
>     Barrie> the fake size of 4k)?
> 
> That's not a "fake size".  That is the amount of space occupied by the
> directory data.  It gets bigger for sufficiently large directories
> (try `ls -ld /dev' for example).

rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 /dev

Hmmm? :)


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