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Hello friends,i am relatively new to Linux,.Whenever i say mkdir dir stat dir size:4096 Why is size of empty directory shown as 4096B?? I studied something about i-nodes,but i cannot ...
  1. 01-25-2009 #1
    burraganesh
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    Hello friends,i am relatively new to Linux,.Whenever i say
    mkdir dir
    stat dir
    size:4096
    Why is size of empty directory shown as 4096B??
    I studied something about i-nodes,but i cannot correlate that in my case.
    Someone please help me out
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  2. 01-26-2009 #2
    um_nirvani
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    4096 is 4KB(1 block size ) of data and whenever a dir is created it takes 4kb for storing some sys related info and block size also depends on file system you have.
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