Aha... this is very helpful. thanks you! JB
On 8/2/06, David Krikorian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/2/06, Jeff Ambrosino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when you run "ls -l" what do the two numerical columns represent for directory entries? > I know they mean hardlinks and bytes for _files_, but what are they for directories? Same thing, as directories are just special files. > e.g.: > > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3813688 Aug 1 14:09 MyDirectory > > So what are the "1" and "3813688" numbers? The '1' means that only 1 directory has that name, which is highly unusual. You should have a minimum of '2', one for "MyDirectory" in the parent dir, and one for "." in the "MyDirectory" dir. Each of those two directories (itself and its parent) has a name that refers to that directory node. The number will be higher if there are subdirectories of MyDirectory, as each of those subdirs will also have a ".." entry referencing the node you know as MyDirectory. The other number is the number of bytes consumed by the directory file. If you add contents to MyDirectory, at some point it runs out of free bytes to store the names for those files, and needs to grow in size.
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