Change the directory to where the files you want to check are located.
Display the size of the files.
$ ls [-l] [-s] |
-l |
Displays a list of files and directories in long format, showing the sizes in bytes. |
-s |
Displays a list of the files and directories, showing the sizes in blocks. |
The following example shows that lastlog and messages are larger than the other files in the /var/adm directory.
$ cd /var/adm $ ls -l total 144 drwxrwxr-x 5 adm adm 512 Sep 1 14:11 acct/ -rw------- 1 uucp bin 0 Sep 1 14:08 aculog -r--r--r-- 1 root root 350700 Sep 3 10:37 lastlog drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Sep 1 14:08 log/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14619 Sep 2 16:11 messages -rw-r--r-- 1 adm adm 8200 Sep 3 14:35 pacct -rw-r--r-- 1 adm adm 920 Sep 3 10:47 pacct1 drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Sep 1 14:08 passwd/ drwxrwxr-x 2 adm sys 512 Sep 1 14:11 sa/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Sep 1 14:36 sm.bin/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 root bin 0 Sep 1 14:08 spellhist -rw------- 1 root root 420 Sep 3 14:17 sulog -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 4092 Sep 3 10:37 utmpx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122 Sep 1 15:39 vold.log -rw-r--r-- 1 adm adm 11904 Sep 3 10:47 wtmpx |
The following example shows that lpsched.1 uses two blocks.
$ cd /var/lp/logs $ ls -s total 2 0 lpsched 2 lpsched.1 |