On 2/22/2017 12:27 PM, Anthony K wrote:
On my ext4 file system, I have a directory that has >2TB and the directory entry itself only shows:
$ ls -ld Stuff drwxrwxr-x 146 akk akk 36864 Feb 21 21:18 Stuff/
$ du -bs Stuff 2093651427987 Stuff
ls -ld is showing the size of the actual directory, NOT the size of the files stored within and under it.
du -s adds up the size on disk of all the stuff IN the directory.
note also that size on disk even for a single file can be larger than the size of the file as files are allocated in blocks.