topic Re: long listing in Operating System - HP-UX

long listing

Rusty Sapper — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:29:17 GMT

when doing a ll (ls -l) what does the 'total:' number mean at the top of the output?

somtimes there will be a 0 when there are 5 items, and sometimes it will have a 32 when there are 2 items.

TIA

Re: long listing

S.K. Chan — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:31:54 GMT

This is a total count of blocks, including indirect blocks.

Re: long listing

Michael Tully — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:32:02 GMT

Hi,

This is listed in the man page of 'ls'
/Quote
"a total count of blocks, including indirect blocks, is also printed at the beginning of the listing."

-Michael

Re: long listing

Scott Van Kalken — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:32:31 GMT

From the man page:

When an option is specified that results in a listing of directory
and/or file sizes in bytes or blocks (such as the -s or -l (ell)
option), a total count of blocks, including indirect blocks, is also
printed at the beginning of the listing.

So I'm tipping it's blocks.

Re: long listing

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:33:21 GMT

Hi,
This is number of block count

-USA..

Re: long listing

Rusty Sapper — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:36:19 GMT

Thanks ALL of you.

define "Indirect Block" please.

Re: long listing

Geoff Wild — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:40:11 GMT

I think that is either the number of blocks or inodes used by the current directory to store the contents...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: long listing

Geoff Wild — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:50:38 GMT

Indirect blocks are used by inodes:

Unix uses a tree structure to store the block list. The structure is called an inode.
The inode holds the first 10 block numbers used by the file. If the file grows larger, a disk block is used to store further block numbers; this is a single indirect block.

Rgds...Geoff

Re: long listing

Michael Tully — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:52:27 GMT

Hi,

The indirect blocks would be the current directory itself and any sub-directory that it may have.

-Michael