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Hi

I created a directed u directory X. I entered the dir with #cd x
- Then i did #ls -la
The first line with the . entry was showing the size
to be 1024.
- But when i did #du -h /x it was giving 2k...

Both the cases are showing the size of the same dir..but the r not the same.... why is the diff there.... am i reght assuming that both should be exactly the same...

Regards

Try removing the -h option, then you might be able to get a better idea. ls -la is showing you both the . and the above directory .., and totalling the 2.

Here's what I get (I use 4k blocks):

Code:

mkdir word

[masterc@masterc ~]$ cd word/

[masterc@masterc word]$ ls -lha

total 8.0K

drwxrwxr-x  2 masterc masterc 4.0K Apr 10 02:22 .

drwxr-xr-x  68 masterc masterc 4.0K Apr 10 02:22 ..

[masterc@masterc word]$ ls -la

total 8

drwxrwxr-x  2 masterc masterc 4096 Apr 10 02:22 .

drwxr-xr-x  68 masterc masterc 4096 Apr 10 02:22 ..

[masterc@masterc word]$ du -h

4.0K    .

[masterc@masterc word]$ du 

4      .

[masterc@masterc word]$

HTH

Cool