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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can't ls -l add file sizes properly??
Message-ID: <1879@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 15:19:12 EST
Article-I.D.: celtics.1879
Posted: Thu Nov 19 15:19:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 08:06:10 EST
References: <456@morgoth.UUCP>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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In article <456@morgoth.UUCP> glidden@morgoth.UUCP (Ken A. Glidden) writes:
|# ls -l
|total 40
|-rwxr--r--  1 glidden      2117 Aug  6 12:17 acctrpt
|-rwxr--r--  1 glidden       179 Mar  2  1987 age.csh
|-rwxrwxr--  1 root         1308 Aug  4 16:39 arcjobs.sh
|-rwxr-x---  1 glidden     29696 Mar  2  1987 deltime
|-rwxr--r--  1 glidden       269 Sep  9  1986 mailbarry
|-r-xr--r--  1 glidden       296 Aug 25  1986 mailjim
|-rwxr--r--  1 glidden       728 Jan  7  1987 newsindex
|-rw-r--r--  1 root         1132 Aug  4 14:11 tmp
|                         ======
|SUBTOTAL------>          35,725
|
|****
|Why does the ls -l "total" give me 40Kb and my manual addition of the file 
|sizes give me 35.7Kb !?!?!?! (Note: This came from Ultrix 2.0 on a DEC uVAX II)

"ls -l" is counting allocated fragments.  Disk is allocated, in this case, in
1KB fragments, so you should add:

total 40
-rwxr--r--  1 glidden      2117 Aug  6 12:17 acctrpt		3096
-rwxr--r--  1 glidden       179 Mar  2  1987 age.csh		1024
-rwxrwxr--  1 root         1308 Aug  4 16:39 arcjobs.sh		2048
-rwxr-x---  1 glidden     29696 Mar  2  1987 deltime	       29696
-rwxr--r--  1 glidden       269 Sep  9  1986 mailbarry		1024
-r-xr--r--  1 glidden       296 Aug 25  1986 mailjim		1024
-rwxr--r--  1 glidden       728 Jan  7  1987 newsindex		1024
-rw-r--r--  1 root         1132 Aug  4 14:11 tmp		2048
                         ======				       =====
SUBTOTAL------>          35,725				       40960

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