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.