On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 18:27 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 03:07 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > [dotancohen@localhost .AbiSuite]$ ls -al > > total 36 > > drwx------ 2 dotancohen dotancohen 4096 פבר 9 02:42 . > > drwx------ 49 dotancohen dotancohen 4096 פבר 9 02:42 .. > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 dotancohen dotancohen 16076 פבר 9 03:04 AbiWord.Prose arefile > > > > What is that "total 36"? > > Hoping I haven't remembered this wrong, it's the number of file system > blocks used for the directory. The directory itself, not the size of > the files it refers to. > I don't know what the 36 is but the in this list each directory has been allocated 1 4096 byte block. These are the standard block sizes used in Fedora. Another mystery is how you did a ls -al and did not get entries for . and .. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
