ls -l directory size

[tuka]

Why is the directory size showned as other than 512?

# ls -l
total 16196
drwxr-xr-x 3 applprod eglprod 512 Oct 26 04:44 install
drwxrwxrwx 3 applprod eglprod 4276736 Jan 30 10:03 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 applprod eglprod 3982336 Jan 30 10:03 out
drwxr-xr-x 3 applprod eglprod 512 Oct 26 04:44 scripts
#


Thanks

 

[daFranze]

can I have
du -sk *
df -kl


Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[Clairvoyant1332]

Directories start out as 512 byte structures. As more files get added to the directory, the size of the directory has to increase to hold the list of files.

 

[sachinss1978]

Evern empty directory size starts from 512 . It's size growz when it crossed 512 mark .

 

[mikeclark]

A directory may have a larger size even though there is very little in it, if it has contained a large amount of data in the past.