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Old 05-31-2007
block size
Hi All,

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 14:47 test

Please let me know here 4096 indicating what?

Thanks & Regards,
Bache
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Old 05-31-2007
d - directory
r - user readable
w -user writeable
x - user searchable
r - group readable
- -group not writeable
x - group searchable
r - other readable
- - other writeable
x - other searchable
2 - inode reference count
root - owner
root - group
4096 - side of data used to hold directory
May - 5th month of the year
31 - last day of the month
14:47 - 13 minutes to 3 in the afternoon
test - name of directory
 
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