Re: ls questions.

TB wrote: 
But what determins the size of the directory?  It isn't the size of the
files in it.


Kindly include the prior post when asking questions.

If you do an "od -xc DIRECTORY-NAME," you can probably answer your
own question.

That said, the size of the directory file is based on the maximum number
of files ever in the directory (it doesn't shrink).
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