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Operating Systems Linux CIFS on linux ? Post 302122881 by cbkihong on Thursday 21st of June 2007 07:04:26 PM
Old 06-21-2007
It's not the size of the directory. It's the size of the inode entry representing that directory on the filesystem. How large that value is depends on how many "links" point to it, which is more likely dependent on the number of entries in the directory, rather than the individual file sizes. So, a directory with just a big ISO file of several Gigabytes, it is not unusual that the directory inode size is a mere under 100 bytes, while your /etc inode size may be many times larger.

To tell the size of files under a directory, use du.

As for a remotely mounted directory, I think you cannot rely on that size reported anyway. Because that is ordinarily the inode size occupied by that directory entry in the filesystem, and for a remotely mounted volume that inode size is mostly irrelevant anyway (not a local filesystem).
 

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xfs_ncheck(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     xfs_ncheck(8)

NAME
xfs_ncheck - generate pathnames from i-numbers for XFS SYNOPSIS
xfs_ncheck [ -i ino ] ... [ -f ] [ -s ] [ -l logdev ] device DESCRIPTION
xfs_ncheck with no -i arguments generates an inode number and pathname list of all files on the given filesystem. Names of directory files are followed by /.. The output is not sorted in any particular order. The filesystem to be examined is specified by the device argument, which should be the disk or volume device for the filesystem. Filesystems stored in files can also be checked, using the -f flag. OPTIONS
-f Specifies that the filesystem image to be processed is stored in a regular file at device (see the mkfs.xfs -d file option). This might happen if an image copy of a filesystem has been made into an ordinary file. -l logdev Specifies the device where the filesystem's external log resides. Only for those filesystems which use an external log. See the mkfs.xfs -l option, and refer to xfs(5) for a detailed description of the XFS log. -s Limits the report to special files and files with setuserid mode. This option may be used to detect violations of security pol- icy. -i ino Limits the report to only those files whose inode numbers follow. May be given multiple times to select multiple inode numbers. If the filesystem is seriously corrupted, or very busy and looks like it is corrupt, a message of the form that would be generated by xfs_check(8) may appear. xfs_ncheck is only useful with XFS filesystems. SEE ALSO
mkfs.xfs(8), xfs_check(8), xfs(5). xfs_ncheck(8)
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