topic Re: FILE SIZE in Operating System - HP-UX

FILE SIZE

Syed Shaffat Ali — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 04:46:26 GMT

when i list the contents of a directory the file size is shown as 64 0x040065.
I would like to calculate the size in bytes
Pls. Suggest me how to know the size in bytes?

Re: FILE SIZE

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 04:56:23 GMT

Those files you see are special character or block files.

They are most likely part of /dev/dsk or /dev/vg00 or some other volume groups.

They don't take up much space, and are quite important, so don't go deleting them.

SEP

Re: FILE SIZE

Robert-Jan Goossens — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:02:44 GMT

Hi,

To add a bit of information to Steven's good answer, try this command to search for file larger than 1mb,

# find /filesystem -type F -size +1000 -xdev -exec ls -l {} \;

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

Re: FILE SIZE

twang — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:54:55 GMT

how about summarizing the file system usage:
cd /dir
du -s

Re: FILE SIZE

Bill Hassell — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 11:13:15 GMT

All the files in /dev are device files which are not really files with data at all, but pointers to the driver and options for the driver to use. The 64 is the driver number (called the major number) and the 0x040065 is the driver options (called the minor number). The ll command simply reports the two values. To decode what these values mean, use the lssf command.

Re: FILE SIZE

Caesar_3 — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 18:03:53 GMT

Hello!

The device file take one inode in FS
and the size depend on the parameters,
but it's something small.

Caesar

Re: FILE SIZE

V. V. Ravi Kumar_1 — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 04:34:17 GMT

Hi,
Probabily you are looking in /dev or in /dev/ directories. 64 is the major number and 0x040065 is the minor number of a device file, which is either character special device or block special device. Deleting them will cuase mall functioning of devices.

Regards