incorrect directory size in listing

[Kerry Hoath]

It shows you how much space is allocated to that directory.
to get a total do
du --total /path/to/check

Regards, Kerry.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:39:21PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Does someone have an answer for this one?
> 
> When I do "ls -lhd /storage/music", I get:
> "drwx------    2 greg     storage      8.0k Aug 31 23:35 /storage/music/".
> 
> I know for a fact that /storage/music contains about 400 megs worth of files. Is the 8.0K shown showing me the inode for that directory? How can I get a total size of the contents of the directory, instead of the inode (if that's what that is)? Thanks in advance.
> Greg
> 
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