Total in ls -la

Joe Smith jes at martnet.com
Tue Nov 7 03:45:38 UTC 2006


Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> ...
> - The 'total' also counts for space taken by files, thus it also means the 
> disk usage.

I would put minimal trust in that 'total' printed by ls. If you really 
want to know the disk space used by a file or files (including sub-trees 
recursively), use du(1).

<Joe




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