On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 01:53:29AM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Why do you say that it is not a a multiple of 4k? > dumpe2fs provides: > Block size: 4096 > > At least 1646960 / 4 = 411740 Duh, 4 is not 4096. 1646960 / 4096 is 402.0898 (approximately). > > du seems providing the size in k > du /var/log/journal > 1646956 /var/log/journal/f14e53f3162847d4ae17fd1ca988e33c > 1646960 /var/log/journal And what does du have to do with the size of a directory that normally is obtained with "ls -ld". > ls -i /var/log/journal > 1117919 f14e53f3162847d4ae17fd1ca988e33c > Another, what does the inode number of a file under 'journal' have to do with the size of journal? Or for that matter, the size of the file under journal? > Is there something wrong? > I suspect you feel the 41 directories you listed contain lots of big files, possibly wasting a lot of space. That is a different topic than the one you asked. It would have helped if you had shown how you obtained the numbers you posted, i.e. what commands were used. I'm now guessing it was something like "du -s <directory>". -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx