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Old 03-29-2006
question about size of a directory
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.


Quote:
$ ls -ld arch
drwxr-xr-x 2 crmcm cluser 1024 Jan 27 12:47 arch
$
$ du -sk arch
9 arch
$

any clarifications gurus?

-Ashish
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Old 03-29-2006
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