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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions. ----- Ursula Le Guin