PHP: Calculating a Directory File Size

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

I thought thats what you meant, but seemed like an odd question

Its 4kb.

[RFH Customer: Jon Freeman]

I believe maybe wrongly that "block" that way is called "Cluster".

[RFH Reseller: schofieldandwhite]

there seem to be a variety of different names for it. In addition to the two on here, I have also heard 'sector' and 'allocation unit'

[RFH Customer: cswd]

Block, Allocation unit = physically addressable chunk of data on the disk as seen by the OS.
Sector = physical disk sector.

Sector != Block/Allocation unit although most IDE/SCSI interfaces abstract it out as that these days.

This terminology is from when drives were CPU/DMA controlled rather than having their own brain and personality.

[RFH Reseller: nick]

Block, Allocation unit = physically addressable chunk of data on the disk as seen by the OS.
Sector = physical disk sector.

Sector != Block/Allocation unit although most IDE/SCSI interfaces abstract it out as that these days.

This terminology is from when drives were CPU/DMA controlled rather than having their own brain and personality.

Well all I know is making the the data multiples of 4096 bytes seems to make it match the value my OS, and the refox file manager gives. So if I'm reading your reply correctly, I was probably right to call it a block was I? hehe

[RFH Customer: cswd]

Yep!

[RFH Reseller: schofieldandwhite]

Nick, I've just got around to testing your script, and it works perfectly. Thank-you, O great PHP master

[RFH Reseller: nick]

Nick, I've just got around to testing your script, and it works perfectly. Thank-you, O great PHP master

cheers! no problem