Question about "ls" command output

Thaidog used Ask the Experts™

on 2012-12-25

I had somebody ask me what the total 304 was in the below output:

Mac-Mini:RemoveSymantecMacFiles$ ls -l
total 304
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user1  staff   27159 Oct 19 19:18 ReadMe.txt
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 tuser1  staff  125872 Oct 19 19:18 RemoveSymantecMacFiles.command
Mac-Mini:RemoveSymantecMacFiles$

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Not sure what that is referring to. Can anyone explain?

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Kent OlsenDBA

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Commented: 2012-12-25

Hi dog,

That simply means that all of the files in the directory are using 304 "blocks" of disk storage. A block is typically 512 bytes, so the total space on disk required to store the files is about 152K.

Good Luck,
Kent