Could someone please tell me what these are and how to read them, please?
How to read the output of ls -al?
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How to read the output of ls -al?
Could someone please tell me what these are and how to read them, please?
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Re: How to read the output of ls -al?
The marked column holds the filesizes in bytes.
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Re: How to read the output of ls -al?
.... and note that in the case of directories you may think of the directory as itself "a file with directory entries", i.e., with the files, directories, etcetera occupying said directory. The size of any such "directory-file" determines / is determined by how many such entries it holds, and is on ext4 allocated disk-space in chuncks of the filesystem's blocksize, 4K normally, which is then the reason why you see the directory-sizes all being integer multiples of 4K.
Re: How to read the output of ls -al?
ls -lahthis will display the size in a 'human' recognizable format
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