Re: 4096 as dir size
- From: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:24:33 +1100
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:03:21 +0300
BrainWorker BrainWorker <owl.brainworker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
Another small burden for the size-sorting mechanism. Arguably, if a user can
remember that a displayed size like "DIR", or nothing at all, is
directory-specific, then perhaps the user can also deal with what is displayed
now. And the shown size does (rarely) provide some useful insight.
Regards
Tom
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