Directory size

[Vidol Loeung]

Thank you Makku and Neil. Now I understand, a new directory is not actuall
empty but contains the '.' and '..'.

Best,
Vidol
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Markku Kolkka" <markkuk at tuubi.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: Directory size


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.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi

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