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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

each file is minimum 4kb

$ touch empty_file
$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 0 may 14 20:13 empty_file
$ wc -c empty_file 
0 empty_file

Huh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, I'm thinking folders aren't I. Doy....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It seems those are 4 KiB on Linux, interesting to know.