Hello,
In UNIX, directories are actually held on the filesystem as files. Those
files contain a list of files within it, so when you view a directory, it
just points at loads of other files.
Therefore, you never see the directory as a file, but it is actually
stored as one.
The 6444 means the number of bytes that directory file is, so the more
files you have in that directory, the bigger the number becomes, because
it's an index of the files "within" it. It's not the size of the files
within it, just the number of them, that increases the directory size.
Make sense??
Hope so :-)
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: 10 July 2003 17:54
Subject: ls directories 5th column
when you do an ls -al and see directories what does the
number in the 5th column mean?
for example in the following what does "6144" mean?
regards!
drwxrwxr-x 6 root bin 6144 Jun 27 15:20 sbin/
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