Thank you Makku and Neil. Now I understand, a new directory is not actuall empty but contains the '.' and '..'. Best, Vidol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markku Kolkka" <markkuk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Directory size Vidol Loeung kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 27. toukokuuta 2005 13:10): > Just wonder why the size of a new, blank directory is 4096 > bytes. Could someone explain? Ext2/ext3 filesystem allocates space in 4K chunks by default. Any non-empty file takes at least that much space. A "blank" directory contains entries for "." and "..", so it doesn't fit in 0 bytes and must take 4096 bytes. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
