[CentOS] question about directory size in linux..
Anthony K
akcentos at anroet.com
Wed Feb 22 20:27:05 UTC 2017
On 23/02/17 06:04, John R Pierce wrote:
> on many modern file systems, larger directories are stored as some
> sort of B-Tree or hash tree, so there's quite a lot of indexing data
> in there along with the actual directory entries
So I gather this depends on the file system.
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
Not sure what to take away from that!
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