System Administration Guide, Volume 2

Examples--Displaying the Size of Files

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