What does size of a directory mean in output of ls -l command?
What does size of a directory mean in output of 'ls -l' command?
directory;ls;size
This is the size of space on the disk that is used to store the meta information for the directory (i.e. the table of files that belong to this directory). If it is i.e. 1024 this means that 1024 bytes on the disk are used (it always allocate full blocks) for this purpose.