It shows you how much space is allocated to that directory. to get a total do du --total /path/to/check Regards, Kerry. On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:39:21PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > Does someone have an answer for this one? > > When I do "ls -lhd /storage/music", I get: > "drwx------ 2 greg storage 8.0k Aug 31 23:35 /storage/music/". > > I know for a fact that /storage/music contains about 400 megs worth of files. Is the 8.0K shown showing me the inode for that directory? How can I get a total size of the contents of the directory, instead of the inode (if that's what that is)? Thanks in advance. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
