Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 00:02:21 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Ho Seng Yip <hsengyip@singnet.com.sg>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: File Disk Usage Message-ID: <3750E27D.4F7E5F9F@3-cities.com> References: <002f01beaa3c$e7c416a0$6ad474cb@oasis> <3750980F.3457EDF9@3-cities.com> <19990530065838.A14810@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst wrote: > > 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.) You're right. But it could be worse. I was looking a file on one computer and writing on another. The switch from one computer to the other was long enough. I've used *nix long enough to know better :). Kent > > -- > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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