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Hi, Im posting this question post verifying all similar question related to this.

"Why is the size of a directory always 4096 bytes in unix?"

Can u tell me the layman example? Im a beginner. So plz explain me easily understandable.

Thanks

Whenever a directory is created it takes 1 block for storing some system related info (meta-data about files, including the file names contained in that directory).

This doesn't always amount to 4k (4096), it depends on the block-size, which is 4096 on most modern Linux machines.

If 1 block isn't enough to store the data, it adds another block (and another and ...). The directory size is always a multiple of the block-size.

You can get the block-size that is used with the dumpe2fs command: