[CentOS] question about directory size in linux..

[Anthony K]

On 23/02/17 14:33, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 02/22/2017 07:02 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>>> Without knowing what the OP's file system but assuming he too is 
>>> using EXT4, what would the directory be storing that's so different 
>>> from mine? 
>>
>> a bajillion small files vs a few large ones. 
>
>
> Not to be pedantic, but the size of a directory has nothing to do with 
> the size of the files it contains.  It doesn't matter if they're small 
> files or large ones.  The only thing that matters is the number of 
> filenames in the directory, and possibly the length of those file names.
Thanks for setting me straight.  I guess the OP must have, like you 
said, a *bajillion*, puny sized files:

$ mkdir junk

$ for u in {1..10000}; touch junk/junk-${u}; done

$ ls -ld junk
drwxr-xr-x 2 akk users 270336 Feb 23 17:19 junk

$ du -bs junk
270336  junk