Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:06:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: peter@sweda.com.hk (Peter Kok) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: directory Message-ID: <199809231306.IAA00468@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <3608F5DE.1CC8D865@sweda.com.hk> from Peter Kok at "Sep 23, 98 09:21:34 pm"
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In a previous message, Peter Kok said:
> Hello
>
> i type ls -l, it lists file type, access right, time and size
>
> there is different size for directory, some are
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 512 sep 16:00 bin
>
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 9728 sep 19 dev
>
> in fact, what is the meaning of 2 or 4
> and the size of directory 512 and 9728
>
2 & 4 is the number of links pointing to the file or directory. The size
of the directory is based on how many inodes the directory needs to point
to all the files in that directory.
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
--Grant R. Gainey
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