Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Hello guys,
I'm curious when we do 'ls -la', what does 'total' mean? Is it the amount of
directory, files, or else?
Example:
pwd
/tmp/testls/dir1
ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 fajar users 4096 2006-11-06 11:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 fajar users 4096 2006-11-06 11:12 ..
What 'total 8' stands for?
Thank you very much.
That is the total number of file system blocks, including indirect
blocks, used by the listed files. If you run "ls -s" on the same
files and sum the reported numbers you'll get that same number.
--
Bob Nichols Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
