[CentOS] question about directory size in linux..

On 02/22/2017 06:34 AM, Jason Welsh wrote:
> How does the directory *itself* have a size of 2.8 megs? 


If you write a large number of directory entries in a directory, the 
directory will grow in order to provide storage for those directory 
entries.  You can imagine a directory as a text file containing all of 
the file names in the directory, with references to the location of 
those files, if that helps you understand why the directory itself will 
grow.