System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Examples—Displaying the Size of Files

The following example shows that the lastlog and messages files are larger than the other files in the /var/adm directory.


$ cd /var/adm
$ ls -lh
total 148
drwxrwxr-x   5 adm      adm          512 Nov 26 09:39 acct/
-rw-------   1 uucp     bin            0 Nov 26 09:25 aculog
drwxr-xr-x   2 adm      adm          512 Nov 26 09:25 exacct/
-r--r--r--   1 root     other       342K Nov 26 13:56 lastlog
drwxr-xr-x   2 adm      adm          512 Nov 26 09:25 log/
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         20K Nov 26 13:55 messages
drwxr-xr-x   2 adm      adm          512 Nov 26 09:25 passwd/
drwxrwxr-x   2 adm      sys          512 Nov 26 09:39 sa/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Nov 26 09:49 sm.bin/
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     bin            0 Nov 26 09:25 spellhist
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Nov 26 09:25 streams/
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin         3.3K Nov 26 13:56 utmpx
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           0 Nov 26 10:17 vold.log
-rw-r--r--   1 adm      adm          19K Nov 26 13:56 wtmpx

The following example shows that the lpsched.1 file uses two blocks.


$ cd /var/lp/logs
$ ls -s
total 2            0 lpsched       2 lpsched.1