When running ls -l, why does the filesize on a directory not match the output of du?

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What does 4096 mean in output of `ls -l`? ``` [root@file nutch-0.9]# du -csh resume.new/ 2.3G resume.new/ [root@file nutch-0.9]# ls -l total 55132 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 18 03:19 resume.new ```

Accepted Answer

That the directory takes up 4096 bytes of disk space (not including its contents).

When running ls -l, why does the filesize on a directory not match the output of du?

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