[CentOS] question about directory size in linux..

On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 07:27:05 +1100
Anthony K <akcentos at anroet.com> wrote:

> 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!

certainly sounds like (-) bs

d

> 
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