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JavaNinja 09-27-2008 07:30 PM
ls gives total 8 when dir empty
 
Hello all,

Can some help me understand this:

Code:
[root@ip folder]# ls -lart
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 26 09:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 26 09:48 .
I only see 2 things, what does the "total 8" mean?

Sorry for the nooby question, didn't know how to phrase this in google.

Thanks all

MS3FGX 09-27-2008 09:13 PM
The total isn't the count of the files listed, but the size. While there are no "files" in the traditional sense, the "../" and "./" links have a size to them so they are counted.

JavaNinja 09-28-2008 11:38 AM
Ah, I see. Is the size in KB?

PTrenholme 09-29-2008 10:53 PM
Code:
$ ls -larth empty
total 8.0K
drwx------ 52 Peter Peter 4.0K 2008-09-29 20:50 ..
drwxrwxr-x  2 Peter Peter 4.0K 2008-09-29 20:50 .

JavaNinja 09-30-2008 04:34 AM
Many thanks for that.


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