Re: 4096 as dir size

  • From: BrainWorker BrainWorker <owl.brainworker@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:03:21 +0300

> Well, actually the displayed size is just what it says it is, not the size
> of all items in the directory. 4kb tends to be the minimim size allocated by
> a file-system. Bigger sizes occur when there's lots of items in the
> directory, regardless of their own sizes.
>
> If you want to aggregate the sizes of a directory's contents, run a relevant
> shell command, or execute the plugin which by default resides in the
> commandbar. Both of these are too slow to use for filelists.

I am not for writing actual size of all contents of directory (this
will be really slowly to open any directory).
I am for writing nothing in column 'size' for directories.


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