From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 29 23:44:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CA814CB0 for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 23:43:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.1.2] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.00 #1) id 10nycI-000DSH-00; Sun, 30 May 1999 06:58:39 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.00 #1) id 10nycJ-0003rA-00; Sun, 30 May 1999 06:58:39 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 06:58:38 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Kent Stewart Cc: Ho Seng Yip , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: File Disk Usage Message-ID: <19990530065838.A14810@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <002f01beaa3c$e7c416a0$6ad474cb@oasis> <3750980F.3457EDF9@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3750980F.3457EDF9@3-cities.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message