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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users tar problem Post 34316 by Perderabo on Saturday 15th of February 2003 04:38:40 PM
Old 02-15-2003
A directory entry is a name and an inode number and a directory is a file that contains several directory entries. A literal interpretation of "size of directory" is, well, the size of the directory.

A second interpretation of "size of directory" is the total of the directory size and all of the files it contains. No one seems to use this intrepretation very much.

A third intrepretation of "size of directory" is total of the directory size and all files in any subdirectory.

Which of these did you think that you meant? And what command are you using to obtain it?

Directories grow as more files are added to them. But they do not shrink (with most file systems) as files are deleted.

It is possible that someone added a lot of files to /home and later deleted them. The size of /home itself would not shrink when they were deleted. Another possibility is that someone did this to a subdirectory deep in /home. The subdirectory would be big enough to only hold its current contents after you untarred.
 

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mvdir

mvdir(1)						      General Commands Manual							  mvdir(1)

NAME

       mvdir - Moves (renames) a directory

SYNOPSIS

       mvdir directory1 directory2

DESCRIPTION

       The  mvdir  command renames directories within a file system. To use mvdir, you must have write permission to directory1 and directory2 and
       to the parent directories of directory1 and directory2. The directory1 argument must name an existing directory.  If  directory2  does  not
       exist,  directory1  is moved to directory2.  If directory2 exists, directory1 becomes a subdirectory of directory2.  directory2 cannot be a
       subdirectory of directory1.

       Directories cannot be moved across file systems.

       You can also rename a directory with the mv command.

NOTES

       This command was made obsolete by the mv command.

EXAMPLES

       To rename or move a directory to another location, enter: mvdir appendixes manual

       If manual does not exist, then this renames the directory appendixes to manual.

       If a directory named manual already exists, this moves appendixes and its  contents  to	manual/appendixes.   In  other	words,	appendixes
       becomes a subdirectory of manual.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  mkdir(1), mv(1)

       Functions:  rename(2)

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