Re: question about directory size in linux..

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On 02/22/2017 06:34 AM, Jason Welsh wrote:
How does the directory *itself* have a size of 2.8 megs?


If you write a large number of directory entries in a directory, the directory will grow in order to provide storage for those directory entries. You can imagine a directory as a text file containing all of the file names in the directory, with references to the location of those files, if that helps you understand why the directory itself will grow.

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