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Old 01-02-2014
Ls directory size reporting byte size instead of file count

I have been searching both on Unix.com and Google and have not been able to find the answer to my question. I think it is partly because I can't come up with the right search terms.

Recently, my virtual server switched storage devices and I think the problem may be related to that change. Previously when I did an "ls -ld" on a directory, the size column would report the number of files and/or directories contained in that directory. Now it is reporting a byte size. An empty directory is reporting 4096. If this is a configurable option, I would like to be able to request my admins adjust the option back to showing number of files & directories.

Thanks,
John
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Old 01-02-2014
See:
Code:
man ls

The "ls -ld" is giving you the output as it should be so if you were getting something else previously it may have been set up with an alias, function, or a different "ls" binary (ie. ${PATH} has changed). You should ask your admins if they've made any changes to your or the default environment.
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Old 01-02-2014
The ls utility will show you the data that it gets from doing the equivalent of a stat() system call on the directory. Some filesystems report the size of a directory as the space the directory consumes; some report the size of a directory as the number of files in the directory. What you are seeing is that a different file system is being used on your new storage device than was used on the previous device.
 
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