From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 27 20:02:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CFD16A41A for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:02:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EC713C481 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:02:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (relay5.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E85CF1C0E; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 319B229C003; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:02:30 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807123-a673fbb000000b34-62-46aa4f56d02f Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 23FF430400B; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:02:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <340a29540707271257h69c89189w10917672cac7f3db@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540707271257h69c89189w10917672cac7f3db@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <182CB259-6CD7-4224-9CE4-B62DF95F11BE@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:02:30 -0700 To: Andrew Falanga X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: The output of ls X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:02:40 -0000 On Jul 27, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: > Right underneath the directory that is being probed at that point is a > number, "total X". What is X referring to? Is it blocks, bytes, > what? It's probably the number of disk blocks occupied by all of the files in the directory. -- -Chuck