Directory size
Markku Kolkka
markkuk at tuubi.net
Fri May 27 11:11:14 UTC 2005
Vidol Loeung kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 27.
toukokuuta 2005 13:10):
> Just wonder why the size of a new, blank directory is 4096
> bytes. Could someone explain?
Ext2/ext3 filesystem allocates space in 4K chunks by default. Any
non-empty file takes at least that much space. A "blank"
directory contains entries for "." and "..", so it doesn't fit
in 0 bytes and must take 4096 bytes.
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Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka at iki.fi
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