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System Administration Guide

How to Display the Size of Files

  1. Change the directory to where the files you want to check are located.

  2. 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. 

Examples--Displaying the Size of Files

The following example shows that lastlog, wtmp, and wtmpx are substantially larger than the other files in the /var/adm directory. 


venus% cd /var/adm
venus% ls -l
total 434
-r--r--r--   1 root     other     585872 Jan 28 14:53 lastlog
drwxrwxr-x   2 adm      adm          512 Dec  1 16:35 log
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other        408 Jan 28 14:15 messages
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other        177 Jan 24 16:56 messages.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other        177 Jan 17 16:13 messages.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Jan  4 04:05 messages.2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other        562 Jan  2 13:13 messages.3
drwxrwxr-x   2 adm      adm          512 Dec  1 16:35 passwd
drwxrwxr-x   2 adm      sys          512 Jan 28 11:38 sa
-rw-rw-rw-   1 bin      bin            0 Nov 26 10:56 spellhist
-rw-------   1 root     root        1319 Jan 28 14:58 sulog
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin          288 Jan 28 14:53 utmp
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin         2976 Jan 28 14:53 utmpx
-rw-rw-r--   1 adm      adm        12168 Jan 28 14:53 wtmp
-rw-rw-r--   1 adm      adm       125736 Jan 28 14:53 wtmpx

The following example shows that lpNet uses eight blocks and lpsched and lpsched-1 use two blocks each. 


% cd /var/lp/logs
% ls -s
total 14            2 lpsched-1    0 lpsched-4      0 requests-2
   8 lpNet          2 lpsched-2    0 requests
   2 lpsched        0 lpsched-3    0 requests-1
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