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Operating Systems AIX size of directory with ls -l Post 99788 by DogDay on Tuesday 21st of February 2006 02:11:25 PM
Old 02-21-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by pascalbout
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-- 1 lobi system 2145654420 Feb 20 10:06 cible11.7bdat
....

but if i do a "du -k" to the directory (so ../), i have :
32817936 ./DDlobi

I don't understand the differency between these 2 values: 65635864 and 32817936
The result with this "du" is in ko, but a result with a "ls" is in o.

thank you

I believe the 'total' you see in the ls output is the total number of blocks used in that directory and is not an indication of file size total.
 

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acctcms(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       acctcms(1M)

NAME
acctcms - command summary from process accounting records SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/acct/acctcms [ -a [-o] [-p]] [-c] [-j] [-n] [-s] [-t] filename... DESCRIPTION
acctcms reads one or more filenames, normally in the form described in acct.h(3HEAD). It adds all records for processes that executed iden- tically named commands, sorts them, and writes them to the standard output, normally using an internal summary format. OPTIONS
-a Print output in ASCII rather than in the internal summary format. The output includes command name, number of times executed, total kcore-minutes, total CPU minutes, total real minutes, mean size (in K), mean CPU minutes per invocation, "hog factor," char- acters transferred, and blocks read and written, as in acctcom(1). Output is normally sorted by total kcore-minutes. Use the following options only with the -a option: -o Output a (non-prime) offshift-time-only command summary. -p Output a prime-time-only command summary. When -o and -p are used together, a combination prime-time and non-prime-time report is produced. All the output summaries are total usage except number of times executed, CPU minutes, and real minutes, which are split into prime and non-prime. -c Sort by total CPU time, rather than total kcore-minutes. -j Combine all commands invoked only once under "***other". -n Sort by number of command invocations. -s Any file names encountered hereafter are already in internal summary format. -t Process all records as total accounting records. The default internal summary format splits each field into prime and non-prime- time parts. This option combines the prime and non-prime time parts into a single field that is the total of both, and provides upward compatibility with old style acctcms internal summary format records. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using the acctcms command. A typical sequence for performing daily command accounting and for maintaining a running total is: example% acctcms filename ... > today example% cp total previoustotal example% acctcms -s today previoustotal > total example% acctcms -a -s today ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWaccu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
acctcom(1), acct(1M), acctcon(1M), acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M), acctsh(1M), fwtmp(1M), runacct(1M), acct(2), acct.h(3HEAD), utmpx(4), attributes(5) NOTES
Unpredictable output results if -t is used on new style internal summary format files, or if it is not used with old style internal summary format files. SunOS 5.10 22 Feb 1999 acctcms(1M)
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