on a CentOS release 6.8 (Final) I was looking around and noticed the following in a directory. [jason at server /app-vol/applications/]$ls -ld temp drwxr-xr-x 4 jason users 2899968 Feb 18 06:31 temp/ [jason at server /app-vol/applications/]$ How does the directory *itself* have a size of 2.8 megs? yes the contents in that temp directory add up to 2.8 megs, but.. umm. huh? when I run a stat on the temp directory, i get File: `temp' Size: 2899968 Blocks: 5672 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: fd02h/64770d Inode: 1836137 Links: 4 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1022/ jason) Gid: ( 501/ users) Access: 2017-02-22 06:31:51.414190071 -0500 Modify: 2017-02-18 06:31:56.135448424 -0500 Change: 2017-02-18 06:31:56.135448424 -0500 on other "normal" directories, I see something like Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Jason