Published on: 2025-04-21 17:18:12
I'll start by presenting things in illustrated form: ; ls -l testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 cks 262144 Apr 13 22:03 testfile ; ls -s testfile 1 testfile ; ls -slh testfile 512 -rw-r--r-- 1 cks 256K Apr 13 22:03 testfile The two well known sizes that Unix files have are the logical 'size' in bytes and what stat.h describes as "the number of blocks allocated for this object", often converted to some number of bytes (as ls is doing here in the last command). A file's size in bytes is roughly speaking the
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