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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:17:00 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Jay Hall <jhall@socket.net>
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Subject: Re: Backup Size
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On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:21:58 -0500, Jay Hall <jhall@socket.net> wrote:
> What concerns me is when running du -h /etc, the size of the folder is  
> reported as 1.7M.

Excuse me for being pedantic, but please try to use the correct
terminology. There are no "folders" in FreeBSD. The concept you
are refering to is called a directory. You don't call the files
in /etc "sheets of paper", do you? :-)



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Polytropon
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