[Sunhelp] Ls -l ???

[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Moti Levy wrote:

> when you do an ls -l on a direcory the first line states total n
> best i could find is that total stands for "amount of storage used by the
> files in this directory"
> but what does that mean storage ? inodes,clusters,entries in the directory
> inode ?

RTFM (from man ls):

     When the sizes of the files in a  directory  are  listed,  a
     total   count  of  blocks,  including  indirect  blocks,  is
     printed.

-James