10-25-2010
The output looks normal for "ls -l" under unix.
It is the total number of disc blocks occupied by the directory and the files in the directory and can include indirect blocks as well. Thus the "total" is usually slightly higher than the figure from "du -s". A block is 512 bytes in most modern unix and Linux implementations.
Interestingly when you have a small number of very large files in a directory the value of "total" is nearly the sum of the sizes of the files.
I have seen a directory and files copied within a server and give a different figure for "total".
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Does any one know how to get a recursive directory listing in long format (showing owner, group, permission etc) without listing the files contained in the directories.
The following command also shows the files but I only want to see the directories.
ls -lrtR * (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: psingh
4 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have one file stat.
Stat file contents are as follows: for example.
H50768020040913,00260100,507680,13,0000000643,0000000643,00000,0000
H50769520040808,00260100,507695,13,0000000000,0000000000,00000,0000 H50770620040611,00260100,507706,13,0000000000,0000000000,00000,0000
Now i... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: davidpreml
1 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi ,
I want to list all files in the order of size . Just want to know which files occupies more size and which occupies less size .
Is it possible with ls command ? :)
Thanks,
Arun. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
1 Replies
4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I have a directory named Project.I have a control file which contains valid list of files.I would like list the files from directory Project which contains files other than listed in the control file.
Sample control file:
TEST
SEND
SFFFILE
CONTL
The directory contains followign... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: ukatru
15 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I list the files in a directory and just show the file size, date stamp, timestamp and file name..
I've been trying to ls -lrt the directory to a file and then use the cut command but I'm not having any luck with getting the proper results.. I thought i could use the -f switch and count... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jazmania
4 Replies
6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello,
in one default UFS filesystem we have 8K block size (bsize) and 1K fragmentsize (fsize). At this scenary I thought all "FileSytem IO" will be 8K (or greater) but never smaller than the fragment size (1K). If a UFS fragment/blocksize is allwasy several ADJACENTS sectors on disk (in a ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rarino2
4 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings everyone.
I have seen that you do wonders here.
I have a large folder on a Ubuntu linux.
Organization main folder, inside 20 000 subfolders, and inside those subolders many other like 5-6 folders and files.
I am interested to create an output to a txt file under the bash... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ultimo
2 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to display the file names and the record count for the files in the 2nd column for the files created today.
i have written the below command which is listing the file names. but while piping the above command to the wc -l command
its not working for me.
ls -l... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Showdown
5 Replies
9. HP-UX
Accordingly a lot of manuals - if you have block size 8KB and trying to write a 1KB file to the block, as result you waste 7KB of the block space. But recently I noticed about Fragments of File Block. In same case if you have File Block 8KB and Fragment size 1KB - you can save your block space,... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jess_t03
6 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to display directory listing in the order of size. I do not have -S option in my version of UNIX. So I wrote a simple script. But it takes "| sort -n -k5,5" part as file names. Any suggestion?
#!/bin/ksh
cmd='ls -l *.TXT | sort -n -k 5,5'
set -x
$cmd
return 0 (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Soham
7 Replies
QUOT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual QUOT(8)
NAME
quot -- display disk space occupied by each user
SYNOPSIS
quot [-acfhknv] [filesystem ...]
DESCRIPTION
quot is used to gather statistics about the disk usage for each local user.
The following options are available:
-a Include statistics for all mounted filesystems.
-c Display three columns containing number of blocks per file, number of files in this category, and aggregate total of blocks in files
with this or lower size.
-f For each user, display count of files and space occupied.
-h Estimate the number of blocks in each file based on its size. Despite that this doesn't give the correct results (it doesn't account
for the holes in files), this option isn't any faster and thus is discouraged.
-k By default, all sizes are reported in 512-byte block counts. The -k options causes the numbers to be reported in kilobyte counts.
-n Given a list of inodes (plus some optional data on each line) in the standard input, for each file print out the owner (plus the
remainder of the input line). This is traditionally used in the pipe:
ncheck filesystem | sort +0n | quot -n filesystem
to get a report of files and their owners.
-v In addition to the default output, display the number of files not accessed within 30, 60 and 90 days.
ENVIRONMENT
BLOCKSIZE If the environment variable BLOCKSIZE is set, and the -k option is not specified, the block counts will be displayed in units of
that size block.
SEE ALSO
df(1), quota(1), getbsize(3), getmntinfo(3), fstab(5), mount(8)
BSD
February 8, 1994 BSD