On 2/22/2017 10:40 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > 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. 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. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz