[NTLUG:Discuss] huge file/directory size in ..

[David Stanaway]

Looks like the parent directory has a lot of files/directories in it.

ls -al .. | wc -l

On 4/1/2012 7:43 PM, o k wrote:
> All.
>
> Can any one let me know what is going on here?
> It says there are 24344 files and the size is huge on .. directory, but only see 2 files.
> i know I a wrong sed command and creates a huge sed* files. I think i deleted them.
> How do I fix the problem?
> thanks.
>
> [root at megan6 dd]# ls -al
> total 24344
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Apr  1 19:40 .
> dr-xr-x---. 26 root root 24903680 Apr  1 12:07 ..
> -rwxrwxrwx.  1 root root      972 Apr  1 09:35 dd.orig
> -rw-r--r--.  1 root root        0 Apr  1 19:40 dd.txt
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