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Date:      Sun, 30 May 1999 06:58:38 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        Ho Seng Yip <hsengyip@singnet.com.sg>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: File Disk Usage
Message-ID:  <19990530065838.A14810@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3750980F.3457EDF9@3-cities.com>
References:  <002f01beaa3c$e7c416a0$6ad474cb@oasis> <3750980F.3457EDF9@3-cities.com>

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Kent Stewart wrote:

> Ho Seng Yip wrote:
>
>> I did a ' ls -l ' on a particular file and it gives me the output below,
>> 
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  707265 May 30 09:10 httpd-access.log
>> 
>> Does the number 707265 represents the amount of disk storage used to store
>> the file, httpd-access.log ? If so, is it in bytes or kilobytes ?

Yes. Bytes.

> It depends on your BLOCKSIZE=K environment setting. Mine is set in my
> start up shell script to show file size in K bytes.

Uh, not in that case. That size is always bytes. (You're probably
thinking of the size reported by ls -s, or something.)

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk


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