1024 is *not* the disk size - that is easy to verify by creating a large file in a directory:
You'll see that the 'size' reported by ls is changing only slightly: this specifies the space the directory metadata is occupying in the file system, such like the inodes needed to specify the directory structure. The above is on a macOS file system, so that looks somewhat different than a Linux/ext2 one which I guess you are using.
To obtain the size of the directory, use 'du' (Disk Usage), as shown above. 'man du' for more command line switches.
hai friends
I need a program to find the size of a directory.. When i tried to get the size, it always gives the default space allocated for it. How can i findout the exact size of a directory using a c program
Thanks in advance
Collins (6 Replies)
hello
When i do a "ls -l" in a directory (Aix 5.3), i have the result :
>ls -l
total 65635864
-rw-r--r-- 1 lobi system 2559909888 Feb 20 15:06 cible5.7bdat
-rw-r--r-- 1 lobi system 1020098870 Feb 20 13:06 cible6.7bdat
-rw-r--r-- 1 lobi system 1544789511 Feb 20 11:06 cible9.7bdat
-rw-r--r--... (2 Replies)
Hi,
when I do ls -ld to a directiry I see the size of directory as 1024.
Does this mean my directory occupies 1024 blocks? What does exactly 1024 specify?
But when I do du -sk to directory it shows 9k.
any clarifications gurus?
-Ashish (1 Reply)
am I right in assuming that in unix a directory size is just information about that directory stored somewhere on the file system, and not a sum of its contents? This is because ls -l gives 1024 as my directory size, when the directory contains many gigs worth of stuff.
also, is
du -sk dir ... (2 Replies)
Hi,
We currently have an Oracle database running and it is creating lots of processes in the /proc directory that are 1000M in size. The size of the /proc directory is now reading 26T. How can this be if the root file system is only 13GB?
I have seen this before we an Oracle temp file... (6 Replies)
find . -type d -print 2>/dev/null|awk '!/\.$/ {for (i=1;i<NF;i++){d=length($i);if ( d < 5 && i != 1 )d=5;printf("%"d"s","|")}print "---"$NF}' FS='/'
Can someone explain how this works..??
How can i add directory size to be listed in the above command's output..?? (1 Reply)
To find the whole size of a particular directory i use "du -sk /dirname".. but after finding the direcory's size how do i make conditions like if the size of the dir is more than 1 GB i hav to delete some of the files inside the dir (0 Replies)
I have been searching both on Unix.com and Google and have not been able to find the answer to my question. I think it is partly because I can't come up with the right search terms.
Recently, my virtual server switched storage devices and I think the problem may be related to that change.... (2 Replies)
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ns_zlib
ns_zlib(3aolserver) AOLserver Zlib Extension ns_zlib(3aolserver)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
ns_zlib - Zlib compression support
SYNOPSIS
ns_zlib compress string
ns_zlib gunzip file
ns_zlib gzip string
ns_zlib gzipfile file
ns_zlib uncompress string
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The ns_zlib command enables compressing and uncompressing of strings or files. The command is available if the nszlib.so module is loaded
into AOLserver or the libnszlib.so, nszlib.dll, or libnszlib.dylib dynamic library is loaded using the load command in a suitable tclsh
such as nstclsh.
ns_zlib compress string
This command compresses the given string and returns a Tcl byte array object with the compressed data.
ns_zlib gunzip file
This command uncompresses the contents of the given gzipped file and returns a string as the result.
ns_zlib gzipfile file
This command is similar to the gzip shell routines, compressing the given file into a new file with the .gz extension. If success-
ful, the original uncompressed file is deleted.
ns_zlib uncompress bytearray
This command takes a byte array object which includes compressed data and returns an uncompressed string object.
EXAMPLES
The following examples demonstrate compressing and uncompressing a string;
# Compress Tcl string
set test "This is test string"
set data [ns_zlib compress $test]
set test [ns_zlib uncompress $data]
--> returns "This is test string"
# Compress the string into gzip format
set gzip [ns_zlib gzip $test]
# Save as gzip file
set fd [open /tmp/test.gz w]
fconfigure $fd -translation binary -encoding binary
puts -nonewline $fd $gzip
close $fd
# Uncompress gzipped file
set test [ns_zlib gunzip /tmp/test.gz]
--> returns "This is test string"
SEE ALSO
ns_adp_ctl(n), load(n)
KEYWORDS
GZIP, compress, uncompress
AOLserver 4.5 ns_zlib(3aolserver)