From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 30 0: 2:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4399214CB0 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 00:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1163.bossig.com [208.26.241.163]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA27499; Sun, 30 May 1999 00:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3750E27D.4F7E5F9F@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 00:02:21 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Ho Seng Yip , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: File Disk Usage References: <002f01beaa3c$e7c416a0$6ad474cb@oasis> <3750980F.3457EDF9@3-cities.com> <19990530065838.A14810@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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