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304 is the total number of blocks occupied.
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I had somebody ask me what the total 304 was in the below output:<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-10-27977355-1"><span>Mac-Mini:RemoveSymantecMacFiles$ ls -l</span>
<span>total 304</span>
<span>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user1  staff   27159 Oct 19 19:18 ReadMe.txt</span>
<span>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 tuser1  staff  125872 Oct 19 19:18 RemoveSymantecMacFiles.command</span>
<span>Mac-Mini:RemoveSymantecMacFiles$ </span>
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Not sure what that is referring to. Can anyone explain?
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I had somebody ask me what the total 304 was in the below output:

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Not sure what that is referring to. Can anyone explain?

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