Re: Stat Command

[Bob Proulx]

Martin Kohl wrote:
> Dear Michael -

But you addressed this to the bug-coreutils list?  The GNU coreutils
are the basic text, file and shell utilities of the GNU system.

> I'm interested in the "stat command", particularly in
> what the following output represents...
> 
> IO Block? (what does this mean)

The best I/O block size.

> Blocks?   (what does this mean)

The number of disk blocks consumed by the file.  Not necessarily the
same thing as the size of the file, in the case of a sparse file.

> Device?   (what does this mean)

The device number of the filesystem.

See the man page for the stat system call for more details.  The stat
command line program simply reports all of the data fields from the
stat system call.

  man 2 stat

Bob

> A sample output from my machine:
> 
> stat termcap
>   File: `termcap'
>   Size: 799248          Blocks: 1584       IO Block:
> 4096   regular file
> Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 8913670     Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)  
> Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2006-11-01 20:41:22.000000000 -0500
> Modify: 2006-11-01 20:25:30.000000000 -0500
> Change: 2006-11-01 20:25:30.000000000 -0500
> 
> Any help is appreciated!!
> 
> Thanks.  Martin Kohl.
> 
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