ls -l
total 36
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vips vips 8776 Jan 11 20:56 a.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips 52 Jan 11 21:44 filemk.sh
drwxrwxr-x 2 vips vips 4096 Jan 11 22:14 hello
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips 7174 Jan 11 09:23 installation.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips 928 Jan 11 22:26 linux_Commands
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vips vips 142 Jan 11 20:56 prog1.c
What does total indicate?
Somewhere I read that it shows the number of blocks, but the number of blocks in my case is
1+1+2+1+1+1 = 7 .
Then what is it?
