On 11/08/2010 10:38 PM, Andreas Kahari wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:59:25PM +0800, Aaron Lewis wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm wondering what is the fifth entry of "long format" with ls -ld , >> which i've never cared much about. >> >> ls -ld /usr/bin >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 6656 Nov 3 02:21 /usr/bin >> >> What does 6656 implies here ? > > That's the size needed to store the directory node. >
Thanks Andreas ! And sorry for the delayed reply , Before i just didn't quiet understand the meaning of "the total number of blocks used by the files in the directory" in ls(1) .. Now i just came to know about inodes stuffs ... -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0xDFE6C29E ( http://keyserver.veridis.com ) Finger Print: 9482 448F C7C3 896C 1DFE 7DD3 2492 A7D0 DFE6 C29E
