David McCann wrote: > All this has prompted me to look at my own 40GB disk. It is reported to > have a capacity of 35.5GB (just 5.5GB used!), showing that Seagate used > factors of 1000 and Linux of 1024. Looking at unused directories shows > that every one occupies 64KB.
Each unused directory is probably using a block/cluster, meaning you've probably got 64K blocks/clusters on that partition. On my *nix systems, empty directories take 4K on one filesystem, 584 bytes on another. Each directory is really just a special file which contains "header" information for the files contained within it, including, but not limited to: name, timestamps, owner, permissions, where to find [start of it] on disk, etc. Each of these entries is of a set size (eg on the QL it's 64 bytes long). _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
