On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Ross Werner wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:24, Evan McNabb wrote: > > > I think 'du -sh /path/to/directory' is what you're looking for. > > > > This is true if what you want is to know how much disk it's using (which > > is technically what you asked), but you should know that disk usage and > > file size are different things. > > Eh? Did I miss something? What's the difference?
Ah, is it not so that the filesystem will allocate more space on the disk for the file than the file actually needs, and also stipulating a minimum size (mine is 4KB, ext3)? 4.0K -rw-rw-r-- 1 justin justin 13 Jan 9 09:23 this_file_is_really_short Justin _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
