The other day I tried figuring out how much disk space a small file
took. I used stat, but I only realized today that stat does not provide
that information directly, as explained by Eric Blake and Pádraig Brady
in http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10561
This information is
On 02/07/2012 12:10 PM, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
Size on disk
We don't know it's a disk drive; it might be
any storage device that contain a file system.
Perhaps a better shorthand string would be Allocation?
That's even shorter, and it conveys what's going on.
On 2012-02-07 15:54, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 02/07/2012 12:10 PM, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
Size on disk
We don't know it's a disk drive; it might be
any storage device that contain a file system.
I agree. I see an advantage in using the term Size on disk: it is well
known from Windows (
