Once allocated directory size displayed by ls will not be reduced even if the contents will be deleted. It will still show the large size it formerly needed as Andre described.
Though a du does not show different output:
This is a Linux box using ext3. It could be that other OS'es and fs'es might behave different. To change that back you'll have to delete and recreate the directory.
JFS2 on AIX resizes the size dynamically after contents are deleted, just as a side note.
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)
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Can someone explain how this works..??
How can i add directory size to be listed in the above command's output..?? (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT V7
cachefslog
cachefslog(1M) System Administration Commands cachefslog(1M)NAME
cachefslog - Cache File System logging
SYNOPSIS
cachefslog [-f logfile | -h] cachefs_mount_point
DESCRIPTION
The cachefslog command displays where CacheFS statistics are being logged. Optionally, it sets where CacheFS statistics are being logged,
or it halts logging for a cache specified by cachefs_mount_point. The cachefs_mount_point argument is a mount point of a cache file system.
All file systems cached under the same cache as cachefs_mount_point will be logged.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported. You must be super-user to use the -f and -h options.
-f logfile Specify the log file to be used.
-h Halt logging.
OPERANDS
cachefs_mount_point A mount point of a cache file system.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of cachefslog when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Checking the Logging of a directory.
The example below checks if the directory /home/sam is being logged:
example% cachefslog /home/sam
not logged: /home/sam
Example 2: Changing the logfile.
The example below changes the logfile of /home/sam to /var/tmp/samlog:
example# cachefslog -f /var/tmp/samlog /home/sam
/var/tmp/samlog: /home/sam
Example 3: Verifying the change of a logfile.
The example below verifies the change of the previous example:
example% cachefslog /home/sam
/var/tmp/samlog: /home/sam
Example 4: Halting the logging of a directory.
The example below halts logging for the /home/sam directory:
example# cachefslog -h /home/sam
not logged: /home/sam
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 success
non-zero an error has occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cachefsstat(1M), cachefswssize(1M), cfsadmin(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)DIAGNOSTICS
Invalid path It is illegal to specify a path within a cache file system.
SunOS 5.10 7 Feb 1997 cachefslog(1M)